Article:		SVG: A Sure Bet
Subject:		Svg can not be used as an interchange format
Date:		2003-07-19 12:26:47
From:		Robin Debreuil
"SVG is the neutral ground where multimedia format combatants can declare a truce and try to solve the interoperability problems that plague their customers. " "SVG will also become the interchange syntax for all sorts of industry-specific or corporation-specific data visualization systems" Svg makes a lousy interchange format for a number of reasons. First there are *many* things you can do in other formats that aren't supported by svg, how not. But more basically because it is a runtime format, not a storage format. Have you ever tried using it as an interm format between two+ graphics/multimedia formats? It really isn't practical for that type of thing, unless you are talking just simple vector data with solid fills. For that though, the world has no interoporability problems.

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• Svg can not be used as an interchange format
  2003-07-19 13:35:22 Paul Prescod
  • Svg can not be used as an interchange format
    2003-07-19 20:30:25 Robin Debreuil
    • Svg can not be used as an interchange format
      2003-07-20 11:41:26 Paul Prescod
      • Svg can not be used as an interchange format
        2003-07-20 14:03:56 Robin Debreuil
        • Svg can not be used as an interchange format
          2003-07-20 22:08:00 Paul Prescod