Internet Explorer 9 Will Suck Without SVG Support
I don’t know if you have used SVG style vector graphics. I have. A lot. I hate that no version of Internet Explorer supports this format (including the recently release Internet Explorer 8).
Please, for the sake of the Internet adopting a great file format that saves space, is scalable at different resolutions, push Microsoft to adopt this. While we are at it, let’s get them to implement Canvas too.
Just for the record, Firefox, Opera and Safari all support at least a limited version of SVG.
Another chatter said XHTML+MathML support would help students and others who need to publish math-centric content on the Web. A Microsoft official said Microsoft is hearing “lots of requests for this feature, as well as for scalable vector graphics (SVG), “both of which add richer presentation to the Web.” But he made no promises that these would be part of IE 9.
Users already honing their IE 9 wish lists | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com
p.s. This is all predicated, of course, on Microsoft continuing on with Internet Explorer development at all.
p.p.s. Join the Revolution…kill Internet Explorer 6.
March 30th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
You might want to start reading at http://blog.codedread.com/archives/2009/03/29/more-svg-support-scores-and-konqueror/#comment-12871
March 30th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
I hate to break this to you, but IE9 will likely suck regardless of whether or not it supports SVG.
See http://a.deveria.com/caniuse/static.html for more info.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:46 am
I think the fact that the entire windows operating system is not friendly with SVG or any other standards for that matter is the problem. Internet Explorer is only a small part of the operating system.
Ubuntu lets use use SVG as your wallpaper and it uses it as the default image format in its applications. Firefox is a component of Ubuntu just as Idiot Exploiter is a component of Windows.
October 3rd, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Even if IE support SVG and canvas in the next release, this will suck
look at what they did with CCS.
IE6, IE7 and IE8(css3) can handle properly CSS and its a damn mess when trying to make something look cool on all big browser.
Why peaple still using IE it’s ridiculous, google can and need to make something. To throw MS IE in a garbage. like release youtube in a better version wirh html5, css3, svg and canvas…etc… not eberyone will make the switch but. IMO most of the pleaple using IE are loose and dont really give a fuck, till facebook, youtube and google search are working
February 11th, 2010 at 1:44 am
Update: Looks like IE9 is going to have at least basic support for SVG. This is a good thing. While I would love for SVG to gain first class native support in *Windows* I’m not holding my breath for that one.
http://www.theminorityreport.org/2010/two-great-tastes-that-taste-great-together/
http://www.theminorityreport.org/2010/hell-freezes-over-in-vector-form/
February 18th, 2010 at 8:33 am
http://www.svg-vml.net/
!!! Did you know VML against SVG like that ?
March 25th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
The news that a more modern IE version(v. 9) is coming is just getting us all mad at our software company. Why, because once the new version of IE is out, we developers are sure that will be as buggy as older versions (history has taught us this) so that we must then write more code to make things compatible.
The fact that IE is finally catching up with some of the modern web standards: SVG, HTML5, that have been there for a big while is definitely good. They should have adopted those standards a while ago. They are still enclosed in the proprietary way of viewing things. They said they will have H264 over Ogg? that is so unwise…