Article:		Digging Animation
Subject:		Inaccurate portrayal of Flash/SWF
Date:		2002-02-17 17:29:47
From:		John Silva
Response to: Inaccurate portrayal of Flash/SWF
Here's another user who ONLY has the SVG plugin installed NOT Macromedia Flash ! I have resisted downloading the Flash plugin because it is PROPRIETARY (albeit 'de-facto') and usually the content distributed with it is marketing hype that I prefer to do without! I DID install the SVG plugin and hope someday that SVG will be a standard part of the browser (Netscape ;-) so that I do NOT have to download plugins like Flash or SVG. Once the authoring tools allow 'save to SVG' instead of only Flash, the change will start! As Antoine mentions in his response, add to it the fact that SVG is XML and can be access via the DOM (i.e. web standard) and JavaScript, there are more powerful things waiting for us who want more than just marketing 'pretty pictures' in vector graphic content! Also, as Antione mentioned, the capability to dynamically create SVG via [web] server side componentry like Servlets/JSP/ASP/PHP/etc. will allow non-graphic designers to create nice, small graphics for web consumers. My current favorite is the work done by SchemaSoft (Catwalk) on graphical stylesheets that leverage the power of another XML 'dialet', XSLT, to produce SVG dynamically in a non-procedural way! I guess the point is that SVG opens up vector graphics to NOT just the graphics designers of the world. It seems to me that SVG and the kinds of tools exemplified by Catwalk, will bring this capability to web developers (and programmers)! That, I believe, is NOT the target audience for Flash! [Put another way; I'm a developer and being developing web pages/sites since 1992, but have never used Flash, but I'm expecting to use SVG!]

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