Web founder highlights IE's lack of SVG support
Rich Media
11 September 2008
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the World Wide Web, has identified Internet Explorer's (IE's) lack of support for scalable vector graphic (SVG) objects as one feature keeping the browser behind its competitors.
According to the Associated Press, Sir Tim said in an interview this week that while other browsers offer built-in support for SVG, IE has been particularly slow in providing the same capability.
IE users must instead download a plug-in from Adobe in order to view SVG images, which offer the ability to zoom in and out without picture quality suffering and resizes images to fit the computer screen.
Sir Tim said: "If you look around at browsers, you'll find that most of them support scalable vector graphics. I'll let you figure out which one has been slow in supporting SVG."
Adobe is to cut support for the plug-in on January 1st 2009, although Microsoft said it has been looking at the situation for some time now.
The World Wide Web Consortium is presently developing a new SVG Tiny 1.2 specification.
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