Microsoft Adopts SVG For Internet Explorer 9 152
An anonymous reader writes "SVG has been a published standard for almost a decade. Microsoft has had nothing to do with it, even while every other major browser adopted SVG as a supported format and interface. Just in the last few weeks, though, Microsoft has thrown a surprising amount of its weight behind SVG." This means for IE 9, but it's a start.
and web developers breathe another sigh of relief (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Well, that's a surprise. (Score:2, Interesting)
The problem of MS: (Score:4, Interesting)
WHY are everybody talking about svg in browsers ? (Score:1, Interesting)
Every time somone mentiones this I go to adobe and try the svg test... and I can't se anything except "Missing Plugin".
What's the trick ???
Re:Nothing new (Score:5, Interesting)
Yeah I was thinking pretty much the same thing, but this is another article for a difference crowd with its own purpose. And with all that said, perhaps it's time to put Microsoft's SVG implementation through the /. torture rack.
Even during the previous article's discussion, a question on my mind (that I was afraid would have been modded offtopic) was "how faithful will their implementaiton of SVG be?" Microsoft is quite famous for doing things in such a way that it makes the world believe everyone else is broken. So now I am left to wonder about this too.
Earth hour? Useless, it shall be IE HOUR! (Score:1, Interesting)
Earth hour? Useless! This day shall be known as IE HOUR! Everybody starts their IE's around UTC+0 12:00!
On a more serious note, why don't they do these real improvements in small increments, so that these would appear to IE8 too, but faster.
Re:embrace, extend, extinguish... (Score:3, Interesting)
Go look at how HTML evolved, and which browsers supported which features, and you'll see that they didn't do anything the other browser makers weren't also doing. Grab older editions of, say, O'Reilly's HTML Definitive Guide, and you'll find a large chunk of the tags are marked as non-standard Netscape extensions, for instance.
The web got big on these non-standard tags. Many eventually became standard (although sometimes in not quite compatible ways). The big difference between IE and the others is that Microsoft, until recently, has been less willing to break sites (especially corporate intranet sites) that use the old stuff.
Re:Nothing new (Score:2, Interesting)
Whenever anyone runs objective tests of browser functionality, Opera usually does very well. I'm amazed it doesn't have more market share.