Patrick wrote:
So to get to the point I was just wondering about the state of SVG support now and guesses on the state a year from now.
Firefox 3 was just released, with its improved SVG support. It will probably remain the same for the following year, the next major version (FF4?) is not expected that soon.
Also, a new version of Opera was released recently and I believe it has good support for SVG but I know very little about that browser.
I would also love to make this site SVG only, any guesses as to when someone could make a fully functional SVG only site?
What stops you from doing it now? Besides search engines not indexing it.
Google does not index SVG only sites but Google can basically only see text. Do you think I would get blacklisted if I created a text only site
Well, Google can see (and index) a lot more file types than text: .doc, .pdf, .ppt and such. Nothing stops it also seeing SVG (which is text/xml, so much easier to read than things as .doc or .pdf)
and found a way to re-route Google through browser identification? Any thoughts on other work arounds?
I am also trying to learn about open source flash. With proprietary flash distributed so far, does (open or closed) flash present a serious danger?If not is there another?
I did recently an extended trial run of Swfdec as a Flash client and it was not that bad as a plugin, is not very far to be usable.
I know SVG is great but I heard that Beta was also better then VHS, the best technology does not always win, what is standing in our way? My plotting application would be an enormous investment of time, is it possible that SVG will end up another Beta?
Please delete the "subheading SVG vs Flash" if you have other SVG web thoughts, I loved the last thread and I would love to read any discussions pertaining to SVG and the web.