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Post number 16770

kirkaracha — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:09:13 -0800

You down with SVG? (requires SVG plugin) SVGSpider.com is a proof of concept site contstructed entirely in SVG. [via Webgraphics]

By: donkeyschlong

donkeyschlong — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:11:57 -0800

Isn't Adobe supposedly winding down SVG development? Flash is too entrenched at this point. (source)

By: luriete

luriete — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:26:34 -0800

And if that's what it can do, I doubt anyone sees it as a serious threat to flash anyway! Not too bad, but everything is anti-aliased, and seems to take a lot longer to load than similar flash files.

By: mook

mook — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 15:42:55 -0800

yes everything is antialiased, as vector graphics should be. But the open benefits of SVG tend to be overlooked - like the fact that colours and elements can be controlled via CSS, try doing that with Flash. but that site is totally shoddy, SVG is not a tool for authoring a complete site.

By: Dark Messiah

Dark Messiah — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:45:52 -0800

I'm not impressed. Neat, but fairly bland.

By: winterdrm

winterdrm — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 17:39:50 -0800

I've done some work with SVG. I use it to generate network topology images for network engineers. I have all of the elements in the image hotlinked to an application that pulls the device info from a database. It's actually pretty swank. I used PHP and Perl to dynamically generate the SVG document, which is really just XML. I even got to use some of that Trig stuff I learned in college :).

By: banished

banished — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:04:46 -0800

#1 - Ugly site design. (which doesn't do justice to svg) #2 - Too long to load. (which is because svg is code, not flash) #3 - Flash kicks the shit out of the "closing curtain" (although I'm sure SVG is useful for certain things, no doubt)

By: Fat Elvis

Fat Elvis — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:08:30 -0800

Every time I view (or try to view) SVG content IE crashes along with explorer.exe. I'm sure I could fix it... but really... why bother?

By: bschoate

bschoate — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:46:34 -0800

I think SVG has a place-- it is easy to construct since it's textual instead of a binary format. Wouldn't it be nice if a future version of the Flash player supported SVG in addition to it's own format? Of course, considering Macromedia makes good money off of Generator, this probably won't happen.

By: greyscale

greyscale — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:02:21 -0800

I've now seen yet another blip in the history of online media.

By: nedrichards

nedrichards — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 19:14:46 -0800

One crap flash site. Everyone says, look at Praystation. One crap SVG site. Everyone says. 'Tis the death of the format'. Crap sites happen, this is cool tech poorly used. Sadly.

By: blefr

blefr — Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:24:13 -0800

Didn't SVG just jump a full version today? So much for winding down. And with some good sites out there now and finally some good writing on the subject, I think SVG is on its way up.

By: Eamon

Eamon — Wed, 01 May 2002 12:26:40 -0800

I was always pro-SVG and anti-Flash because of my preference for open standards. But then I actually looked around and found this site, and it appears that Macromedia published the specification in 1998. The fact that the SVG standard isn't entirely in the hands of Adobe still gives it an edge in my opinion. Of course, it doesn't matter to me as much as it would if I weren't staunchly anti-plugin for my web designs.