Re: [Devel] SVG & Fonts

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 10:01 PM +0300 11/20/02, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> And I am quite confident that number of Linux Desktops is much bigger
> thannumber of people insatlled Adobe SVG plugin.

	And you would be wrong - see my previous note about how Adobe 
has gotten the SVG viewer into MANY desktops...


> I am still wondering what Microsof is planning to do with Vector Graphics.

        SVG - no question.

	All that is missing is for them to actually bundle the Adobe 
viewer with every copy of IE and/or Windows.  Hopefully the next 
major release...


> If they decide to go with SVG - Flash woul dbe dead with next Windows release.

        We can only hope - I, for one, will NOT miss Flash/SWF...


> If they continue with Flash (part of MS IE install) - SVG has low chances to
> succeed.

        They'll still ship it because there are lots of sites still using it.


> Tantek is project Leader for MacIE, MacIE and WinIE have different code bases.

        Tantek is a friend of mine, and a very nice (and smart!) guy.


> Isn't it officially called ECMAscript?  (ecma.ch)

	JavaScript was turned over to the ECMA/ISO by Netscape a 
while ago, and the official name for the language is now ECMAScript - 
though most call it JavaScript for historical reasons.


> BTW: I think real engine behind is DOM.
> You can impleemnt DOM binding to JavaScript (that's somewhat default/reference
> implementation in most of W3C specs), Java (also presnet in some specs), C,
> C++, C#, Perl, whatever.

        Correct.


Leonard
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