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Is Microsoft leading or following with SVG?
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| As usual, Microsoft's action drew considerable
| scrutiny and even skepticism. It's not hard to
| find commenters who write about "false
| marriage", "damage" and lock-out. The major
| market reality that has impacted SVG for years
| is that all major Web browsers support it--
| except for Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
| Numerous projects have decided against SVG in
| their designs precisely because of this lack.
|
| Initial reaction to Microsoft's decision has
| been, in my paraphrase: "Finally! Soon IE will
| support SVG, and we can get back to our
| programming." I'm unconvinced -- but also unsure
| that it matters.
|
| There's no guarantee that Microsoft will ever
| upgrade IE again, let alone that it'll include
| SVG. Even if it does, it'll be many years before
| use of earlier versions (IE 5, 6, 7, and 8, for
| example) falls below whatever threshold
| decision-makers decide should apply.
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http://www.itworld.com/development/92102/microsoft-leading-or-following-svg
British Airways wants to force Microsoft to be in court
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| A man suing British Airways over an alleged
| aircraft accident at London City Airport on
| February 13 2009 is claiming that because of it
| he lost his job at Microsoft.
|
| Raymond Hamblin worked for the Global Practices
| Group of Microsoft and wants damages from BA for
| both lost income and future earnings.
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http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-brief/45440-british-airways-wants-to-force-microsoft-to-be-in-court
Recent:
Flash is coming to the iPhone, thanks to Gordon
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| Schneider (pictured right, next to Flash
| Gordon) married up Javascript with the
| iPhone's inbuilt support for Scalable
| Vector Graphics (SVG), an open-source
| competitor to Flash, which hasn't taken off
| to the same extent as Flash, due to the
| fact that Adobe had years of head-start in
| terms of getting the software installed on
| virtually all PCs.
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http://apcmag.com/Content.aspx?id=5078
Web code is already open - why not make it free as well
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| Oh dear. After the debacle with Microsoft
| Polandâs apparent racist photoshopping,
| Microsoft China went and got the company in
| hot water for allegedly âstealingâ code.
| Yes you read that right: Microsoft and
| wholesale âtheftâ of code from another
| website. Of course itâs not âtheftâ itâs
| copyright infringement but tomayto/tomarto.
| Microsoft confessed blaming a vendor they
| had worked with. No surprise really but the
| damage to their name may have already been
| done. Thereâs more to discuss here than
| Microsoftâs already tarnished reputation
| though. The issue raises some important
| points in favour of free software and
| points to why more if not all code should
| benefit from free licencing.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/web_code_already_open_why_not_make_it_free
And So It Begins Again: Microsoft Joins SVG Group
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| The primary point of interest to me in this
| is the idea of Microsoft joining a Working
| Group for a technology that it has been
| pointedly ignoring for 11 years, and for
| which Microsoft can boast an industry
| leading 0.00% support for in its latest
| and greatest browser.
|
| What exactly is Microsoft going to
| contribute here? What deep pool of SVG
| experience and credibility gets Microsoft a
| seat at the table?
|
| [...]
|
| In any case, now the W3C will probably be
| burning calories proving Microsoft hasnât
| corrupted the W3C ISO-OOXML style.
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http://www.the-source.com/2010/01/and-so-it-begins-again-microsoft-joins-svg-group/
SVG Web: Google Brings SVG Support to Internet Explorer
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| Microsoft is a true master when it comes to ignoring Web standards. Thanks to
| Google, that could now change in terms of the SVG vector graphics format.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/SVG-Web-Google-Brings-SVG-Support-to-Internet-Explorer
Related:
Microsoft's IE not good enough for web creator
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| SIR TIM BERNERS LEE, inventor of the Interwibble and current director of the
| World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a gripe with the Voleâs Internet Explorer
| browser.
|
| In a recent interview, the creator of the great WWW, noted that although he
| was loath to specifying his preference of web browser, IE just wasnât up to
| scratch when it came to graphics encoding.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/11/microsoft-ie-enough-web-creator
http://tinyurl.com/4898oc
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