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SVG: A Sure Bet
Subject: Missing the point
Date: 2003-07-17 08:32:42
From: Tony MacDonell
The thing that really bothers me is the innate misunderstanding people have of the roles of these technologies.


SVG will never be able to achive some of the functionality that flash files contain because the reality of the situation is this:


"SVG is a transmission format for descriptions of vector information"


Flash however, is an entire platform in which you develop Rich Media Applications and Presentations


I have created hundreds of commercial projects with Flash for the web and for the desktop, and for the pocket PC, and for cell phones, and for playstation, so the point about going where Flash can't go is rubbish.


The thing that this article fails to point out is where SVG really will succeed. Being a standard transmission medium for vector graphics information from one application to another.


That is something Flash will never do, you are right there, but you are wrong in thinking that Flash is a competitor to SVG.


actionscript-toolbox.com posted source on Rendering SVG in the Flash Player. And it is likely that in the future the Flash Player will support it natively, because the Flash Player is the most widely adopted vector graphics renderer out there.


It makes me laugh when I think that in the next couple years, all of these SVG people that have been bitching at Flash, saying SVG is a Flash Killer, could suddenly find themselves using the Flash Player as their main display plug-in.


Flash will eat SVG. By that I do not mean that it will kill it. It will simply absorb SVG as another feature of the Flash Player. The two technologies will be complimentary.


And if this happens, it could potentially be the best things that ever happened to SVG.


If you can't beat em, join em.

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