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Re:Ask: Why do web developers think the only applications pe... by nostrademons on Friday September 21, 2007 @12:34PM (#57993)
A lot are actually using the <canvas> tag instead, which is a bit more widely-supported in present browsers, though I believe it's a bit less flexible.

There's the aformentioned Doom clone (http://canvex.lazyilluminati.com/83/play.xhtml). A bunch of JavaScript charting libraries have sprung up recently - one I'm familiar with is WebFX (http://webfx.eae.net/). I did a real-time charting widget for my former employer that graphed stock prices in real time on your browser; unfortunately I can't show you that. SVG's also apparently getting popular in bioinformatics for viewing protein-folding and other biochemical interactions.

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Re:Ask: Why do web developers think the only applications pe... by Jd on Friday September 21, 2007 @06:59PM (#58169)
Doesn't this come back to the problem of ontology? Given the different possibilities, what makes you so sure SVG will come out on top? Can it exist w/o a standards org like W3C to promote its adoption?

The Doom clone was why I specified 'useful' in my last comment ;)

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