Hi John,
I would guess that all you can read about IE9 is probably just speculation (unless it is from an official MS source).
I was recently at the SVG Open 2009 conference. Microsoft was a silver sponsor and sent three employees to the conference. However, as usual for big corporations there were no promises about upcoming SVG support.
While I think that chances are higher (because customer demand SVG support and the European Union is complaining about unsupported web standards in IE) there is no official confirmation that SVG will be in IE9.
There are however workarounds:
* The SVGWeb project takes existing SVG content and renders it in Flash with a Javascript shim: http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/ * The GoogleChromFrame plugins supports SVG and Canvas and other stuff to the same extent that Webkit supports it * MozIE is a similar plugin based solution based on the Mozilla engine * there are plenty of Javascript projects supporting vector graphics and render it to either one of SVG/VML/Flash/Silverlight, based on what is available in the browser: see dojo.gfx, Raphael, AmpleSDK, etc.
I think of all the above, SVGWeb is very interesting as it renders the SVG without having to modify the SVG source (just a few parameters in the object tag and linked js) - and Flash is installed on almost all IE's, more than 90% market share ...
Have a look at http://www.svgopen.org/2009/registration.php?section=abstracts_and_proceedin... for presentations and papers.
Thanks, Andreas
John Culleton wrote:
Just for fun I created an Inkscape file with an aqua square on it and saved it as svg. Then I addressed the file name in my Firefox browser. It showed it OK.
I have read that reading svg files was promised in IE 9 for Windows users. Any of you who have Windows 7 and/or IE 9 can you verify that this is so? I want to create some web entities in svg but not if I am shut off from all or almost all IE users.