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Apple contributes to SVG Standard

updated 01:15 pm EDT, Wed September 5, 2001

 
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Apple is one of the many companies throwing its support and development resources behind the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 specification, which was submitted today as a W3C Recommendation. SVG is an XML-based language that allows authors to create two dimensional vector graphics. Other key supporters of the SVG format include Adobe, Macromedia, Microsoft, Nokia, and Web browser developer Opera Software.


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  1. majinbutz

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    Opera?

    That's interesting considering they still don't even properly support PNGs.

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    Opera.

    Probably Opera for PCs...

    I'd like to see fuller PNG support around the place, not to mention MNG files. Goodbye GIFs!

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    what ?!

    Macromedia is supporting SVG ??? holy shjite, that smells odd to me. At least i hope flash gets killed as fast as possible...or just having Macromedias licence to write code (or design GUIs) eternally revoked. .swf is okay as concept, but having a company like Macromedia behind such a standard is just about as silly as it could possibly get. Now, where is the first SVG editor ?

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    editor!?

    I think it is Illistrator that lets people save to SVG files today!

  1. majinbutz

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    MNGs...

    Do they exist? Has a standard for them been accepted yet? Does it include a 24 bit variety as well as an 8 bit? What about JPNG, has there been any progress there?

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    SVG

    Adobe Livemotion lets you create SVG's. Unfortunatly SVG is only suported by Adobe's huge plugin and Mozilla (poorly). SVG is also not binary code (unlike Flash), it's based on XML which leads to lager movie file sizes.
    SVG is a great tec for the future, but still has some way to go before it is as mature as Flash, which is what 3/4 years older.

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    HUH?

    PNGs? Isn't this topic about SVGx?

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    WMF?

    why not just use window metafiles - after all every one else does

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    SVG clarifications

    I'd like to clarify some misinformation in both this article and its subsequent posts.

    - SVG was released as a final recommendation on September 4.

    - SVG file sizes are actually quite comparable to Flash and GIF graphics while offering more features.

    - SVG allows GZIP compression which results in SVGZ files which are often times smaller than Flash binaries. Check out this guy's comparison table on SVG formats:
    "http://www.laaker.com/site/micah/works/technology/svg/infographics/1_static/index.shtml"

    - Several applications support the authoring of SVG. Adobe Illustrator 10 reads and writes SVG (9 simply writes), CorelDraw 10 writes, and a slew of PC apps have SVG support.

    - Adobe's viewer isn't the only viewer available. You can also use Batik 1.1 as it is a Java2 implementation of the viewer and some creation engines. If you are running OS X, definitely check this out. "http://xml.apache.org/batik/index.html"

    - Macromedia is on the SVG recommendation team, just like Apple, Kodak, Adobe, and others, so that it canprovide input into the new specification. Whether it then decides to implement SVG into its products is a different story. MM has been referring to SVG as a file interchange mechanism, wherein programs would import/export SVG so that other apps could have access to all the content.

    Lastly, SVG is easy to learn. Check out the spec and other news, including upcoming do-it-yourself books, at "http://www.w3.org/graphics/SVG/".

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