SVG in Internet Explorer and at Google

Note: Version with better audio at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT0zgcNczFY

SVG is coming of age. One of the biggest impediments to SVG though has been lack of support in Internet Explorer. At this keynote, part of SVG Open 2009, you will learn about SVG Web, a new open source JavaScript project that allows Internet Explorer to render both static and dynamic SVG with a simple drop-in library! See demos of SVG Web and hear from the creators of the project. In addition, find out how Google and others are using SVG, including in Google Docs, the Google Visualization API, and more. You will walk away from this keynote excited and ready to immediately use SVG across all major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, the iPhone, and more).
Note: This is a re-uploaded version with better audio.

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[wysiwug]

finally..... been waiting for a long time

[RafaelMinuesa]

Google has implemented SVG through Flash so that anyone who has Flash installed will be able to see and interact with SVG content.

The package, called SVGWeb, consists of some javascript and an SWF (Flash) file. You simply put your SVG content in your page as you would normally would and include the JS library which will detect if the browser has native SVG support or not. If it has support, it will essentially do nothing special. If it doesn't (IE), SVGWeb will take over and use Flash.

[altay8]

Internet Explorer may be awful, but if it isn't forced to support SVG then it will retard the acceptance of SVG by websites. I'm impressed by what Google has been able to do in furthering the acceptance of SVG as standard.

[hdzsound]

stop wasting time with IE

let it die