Comments on: Why it’s important for Opera to also focus on SVG?

By: Frederik

Frederik — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:59:37 +0000

SVG is just great and I really love to see the good support in Opera. Using SVG in CSS backgrounds just puts it one step further! And in my eyes, I think it was the right decision to first support declarative animation and then add ECMAScript. Declarative animation is one thing that is so great about SVG, and It's good that now finally Batik supports this as well. Let's hope Firefox will catch up. The only really sad thing is Microsoft pushing Silverlight, which might prevent them from supporting SVG, just because of tactical considerations. They want to convince people that Silverlight is the thing, and that would be harder with such an excellent technology as SVG in direct competition. By the way: It's a bit funny to see the firefox people add support for the HTML5 video element, and put this into SVG via foreignObject. The latest SVG draft proposed a video element way before HTML5 was born...

By: Darken

Darken — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:33:28 +0000

“Vladimir Vukićević ported a Silverlight demo to SVG. photos.svg”
– Nice concept!

By: Frenzie

Frenzie — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:19:03 +0000

IE7 is still a problem with SVGs (I'm not sure how that is exactly with Opera and Firefox, but they've never posed a problem for me... IE7 has).

By: gr1b0k

gr1b0k — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:40:43 +0000

Chris Double, who has been working on support for the HTML5 tag for Mozilla Firefox, posted an amazing demo using Theora video as a live image texture in an SVG image.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Har-PRP4X9U Chris Double's post + Vladimir Vukićević ported a Silverlight demo to SVG. photos.svg

By: opera11

opera11 — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:04:44 +0000

Oooo, i sea the svg( http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20061213/htmlObjectHarness/full-index.html ) Really….With Firefox not work