The Minority Report

Ok, I’ll admit that I’m not a huge fan of peanut butter…or Internet Explorer. One of my big complaints has been that IE doesn’t support SVG. I posted about Microsoft joining the SVG Working Group previously and this is a follow up post on the IE Blog update regarding their working with the group.

In this post, I want to share some examples of the progress going on in the SVG Working Group. Microsoft recently joined the SVG Working Group, and other members (Mozilla, Apple and Opera among others) welcomed us warmly. I’m hopeful about the ways that SVG (both its current direction and future potential) could make the web better. We want the spec to be clear, consistent, and predictable for developers. We’re working out ambiguities such as “Pointer events and clip-paths”, “CSS Selectors <use> and as well as inconsistencies with stroked-dasharray” and “<use> and its interaction with the DOM and rendering” so that web developers can write SVG once and know that it will be interoperable across browsers.
IEBlog : W3C SVG Working Group Update for January 2010

Microsoft typically has an “embrace and extend” philosophy about standards so I’m waiting with baited breath but this is such a good step forward that I do want to give a shout out to the boys in the trenches over at Microsoft. I really hope that first class support for SVG makes its way into Internet Explorer 9 (IE9).

Keep it going boys!