Google Brings SVG Support To Internet Explorer

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based graphics file that is scalable in physical size (as its name indicates) but without any loss or detail or quality in the graphic itself.  SVG was originally supposed to be one of the "magic technologies" that allowed for dynamic graphical content, but lack of support in Internet Explorer made it unpopular.  When Macromedia/Adobe Flash appeared and went mainstream SVG's developmenta and support had practically halted in the mainstream but did appear in only open-sourced applications.  Well SVG support now can function in your Internet Explorer web browser provided by Google running as a Javascript library.... ironically depending on and executing Adobe Flash plugin.

SVG is a good thing, its graphics are very lightweight and highly compressable, and "SVG is in most graphical tools. It is used heavily in many big projects, such as KDE and Wikipedia. But Internet Explorer's lack of built-in support for SVG was keeping it away from mainstream use on the web. Google is fixing that now with a JavaScript drop-in named SVGWeb. They've posted a quick, one-minute overview, a longer and more detailed presentation, and you can read about it on the project page."

Maybe we will start seeing SVG used more around the web!

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