SVG is Coming Along
August 3rd, 2005I just read on SVG.org that progress is being made with integrating SVG into Safari. A while back I looked into SVG and what it can do and discovered that it is very powerful. Think of it as an open format for Flash. And instead of controlling the graphics with ActionScript or Shockwave you use regular Javascript. SVG files are just XML, so any text editor can work with it. There is no need to license a compled editor to do basic work with SVG.
Also, you can embed Javascript into SVG documents just as you do with HTML now. When you do that you can have the Javascript change shapes and colors, and with Ajax you could have it update the image with data from the server. There will be no need for Java applets once SVG has matured.
