adobe.com— Scalable Vector Graphics is a text based graphics language that describes images with vector shapes, text and embedded raster graphics.
Oct 3, 2005View in Crawl 4
this is a good concept for resolution independant art... however... it eats up ALOT of unecessary CPU and should not be used in web pages at least for another year.
SVG has really great potential, but it's a bit too new to put into anything mainstream.To correct the above poster, FireFox is the WILL BE the only browser that supports SVG natively when 1.5 is released. The 1.5 beta currently supports it, but not the 1.0.7 stable release. Opera and IE do not support it natively, but you can use the Adobe SVG viewer plugin on these, though the programming works a little different. I am not aware of any other browsers that have support for it.When it does become more common, SVG will show its true power: Scripting on the page can interact with the SVG and vice-versa
Vector graphics need huge amounts of CPU power to be drawn. Just take a look at a TI-83+ for an example. A good vector drawer in TI-BASIC is Shade(-11,11,-11,11), which fills the screen dark. This takes about 10 seconds to do. Obviously, a modern CPU could handle it better, but with 16.4 million colors in vectors, it would take forever to draw the picture.
neocitronOct 3, 2005
this is a good concept for resolution independant art... however... it eats up ALOT of unecessary CPU and should not be used in web pages at least for another year.
flyingavatarOct 5, 2005
SVG has really great potential, but it's a bit too new to put into anything mainstream.To correct the above poster, FireFox is the WILL BE the only browser that supports SVG natively when 1.5 is released. The 1.5 beta currently supports it, but not the 1.0.7 stable release. Opera and IE do not support it natively, but you can use the Adobe SVG viewer plugin on these, though the programming works a little different. I am not aware of any other browsers that have support for it.When it does become more common, SVG will show its true power: Scripting on the page can interact with the SVG and vice-versa
forseOct 5, 2005
/me cries as it doesn't work in Opera 8.5
rebugOct 6, 2005
>Is 'possibilitie' a word?Only if the article is titled "A Treatise Regaerding the Exploratione of Possibilities in Ye Scalable Vectre Graphics"
compismyrxOct 6, 2005
Vector graphics need huge amounts of CPU power to be drawn. Just take a look at a TI-83+ for an example. A good vector drawer in TI-BASIC is Shade(-11,11,-11,11), which fills the screen dark. This takes about 10 seconds to do. Obviously, a modern CPU could handle it better, but with 16.4 million colors in vectors, it would take forever to draw the picture.
tribalsunOct 6, 2005
<a class="user" href="http://www.opera.com/features/svg/">http://www.opera.com/features/svg/</a>
tribalsunOct 6, 2005
<a class="user" href="http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/03/16/">http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/03/16/</a>