![]() Presentations and discussions at the SVG Open 2008 conference in Nuremberg showed that interest in SVG solutions is still high and rising, across all media, industry and within the academic community. There is an increasing trend within the European Union and other countries towards open standards not controlled by individual corporations. If no mature SVG plugin solution is provided for IE in the upcoming year, SVG will remain a niche-solution that mainly lives within intranet solutions, mobile or embedded devices, but not in the open web and the increasingly important web applications arena. This would bridge the gap until Microsoft decides to natively implement SVG and would also increase the pressure on Microsoft to act. If SVG wants to succeed on the open web, a mature SVG plugin solution for Internet Explorer has to be provided within the next couple of months. There is a common perception within the SVG user and developers community that Internet Explorer will remain an important web-browser platform at least for the next couple years. While home users are quicker to adopt more powerful and standards-compliant web browser technology, many corporations or government organizations are still reluctant to adopt to alternative browsers, despite the fact that they are technically superior. While the market share of Internet Explorer is still decreasing (somewhere between 50 and 80% market share, depending on the country), it is still the predominant browser in many corporations and government organizations. It would free Examotion from the large burden of being the only company actively developing an Internet Explorer SVG plugin. Having a mature plugin alternative for Internet Explorer would also allow Examotion to concentrate on developing better SVG authoring and animation tools and workflows. At the SVG Open 2008 conference, Examotion stated that it's customers' needs come before testsuite conformance (i.e. It also lacks the support of a larger company or organization behind the product, which may be a problem for the distribution of the plugin. ![]() Examotion's Renesis plugin is not yet mature enough and does not implement a large enough subset of the SVG specification for many SVG applications. There is also the risk that upcoming Internet Explorer versions or MS Windows service packs will prevent the Adobe SVG viewer plugin from working, due to incompatibilites and lack of support. The most widely used SVG plugin, the Adobe SVG viewer, is not being supported any more and is falling behind from a technical point of view and standards support. The fourth big web browser, Internet Explorer, is still lacking native SVG support, despite the fact that vector graphics support is the most critical and requested feature for the Ajax developer community (see Open Ajax developers poll). At the SVG Open 2008 in Nuremberg, all three browser projects and/or companies were present and confirmed their intention to fully implement their SVG support towards SVG 1.1 Full and selected SVG 1.2 Tiny features useful for web-applications and the HTML5 environment. Three major browser projects/vendors (Opera, Mozilla and Webkit) are steadily improving their native SVG support. SVG is coming of age in the web and web-application eco-system. Project SVG Plugin for Internet Explorer Situation and Background ![]() 1.4.2 For the Project/Vendor supplying the IE plugin.1.4 The benefits of Providing an SVG IE plugin. ![]()
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