Re:Are We Taking CSS Too Far?
by _delirium on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @07:10PM
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Hmm, this trend of replacing bitmap images with CSS vector graphics is interesting but a bit strange. Is SVG on the browser dead, and CSS is replacing it? It has the advantage of better support and a simpler spec, but much worse tool support than SVG, not to mention really not being designed for vector graphics.
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SVG didn't gain the needed momentum as it's approach was more revolutionary instead of evolutionary. Also Internet Explorer, although I'm not sure how it fits in this situation as it surely can't support all that fancy CSS required to do advanced graphics either.
Re:Are We Taking CSS Too Far?
by robin_reala on Thursday August 19, 2010 @03:57AM
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SVG is supported (and hardware accelerated) in IE9.
Re:Are We Taking CSS Too Far?
by mike-cardwell on Thursday August 19, 2010 @05:13AM
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Also, SVG can be embedded directly in HTML5 now. Also, Firefox 4 seems to be making progress on actually supporting SVG animations now.
I don't think SVG is dead, I think it's getting closer and closer to the point where people will actually be able to start using it as was intended. Not quite there yet though.