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SVG Lives: A Follow-up

At the end of 2008, I did a series of posts arguing that SVG still lives despite predictions of it’s downfall. I had been hearing these dire predictions for years, and wanted to provide a decent rebuttal: Reports of SVG’s death exaggerated. Last year, I had the good fortune to go to SVG Open 2009.… Read More »

SVG Lives: the Summary

This is the last in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. In the subsequent posts, I refuted each of the major claims that I have seen for the death of SVG. Those claims were: Death by lack… Read More »

SVG Lives: the Video/Audio Claim

This is the next in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. Each subsequent post takes a claim and refutes it. The Claim SVG is useless because it doesn’t support video or audio. It’s time to go back… Read More »

SVG Lives: the 3D Graphics Claim

This is the next in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. Each subsequent post takes a claim and refutes it. The Claim SVG is useless because it doesn’t support even basic 3D features This claim makes a… Read More »

Reports of SVG’s death exaggerated

A message appeared recently on the SVG Development mailing list that, once again, predicts the death of SVG. This meme comes up pretty regularly on the various mailing lists for SVG. Most of them are trolls, of course. But this one got me thinking again about what SVG is and what it is not. I… Read More »