SVG is Dead

Thursday, September 7, 2006

Via JD, Adobe has killed all future SVG player development. With Adobe out of the game due to Flash and Microsoft out of the game with WPF/E, we are one step closer to SVG being know as the vector graphics betamax.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/svg/eol.html

[2] http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2006/09/adobe_svg_viewe.cfm

4 Comments

That's disappointing, but I think your headline is a bit extreme. SVG has a big enough following that either IE will natively support it eventually or another viewer will fill its place.

IE isn't driving this market anymore. The trend setters are all using browsers which support SVG. I'll place my bets on SVG surviving this one.

Jon Galloway - Thursday, September 7, 2006 6:27:36 AM
And, on a side note - is Adobe / Macromedia trying to become irrelevant, or doing it accidentally? First they fight to keep PDF out of Office, then they stop supporting the vector graphics format (vector graphics is kind of their thing, right?).

Are they just making it really easy for us to write them off once WPF/E comes out?

Jon Galloway - Thursday, September 7, 2006 6:31:38 AM
I'd be very suprised if we see an IE SVG viewer. They are all about XAML for this type of thing. Supporting a standard that has never really made it after all these years just won't happen any time soon. There are much larger fish to fry and much more interesting problems to solve.

Jesse Ezell - Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:41:30 PM
I just started looking at SVG since hearing about it on the web...and to be honest...when I looked a bit closer, I couldn't see the point in this. Flash has many clear advantages over SVG and it's capabilities blow it out of the water by far. I haven't heard a good reason for even using SVG, is there something I'm missing?

Mikey - Sunday, February 8, 2009 12:22:32 AM

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