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20021219

I see shapes of green, red roses too

Via Mark’s “What is RSS?” (which makes a good job at unmystifying the several flavours of RSS, from the example feed of which I gathered the URL that I’m just about to write about, and which makes a rather longish parenthesis), SVG’s Past and Promising Future: where we learn that the SVG craze is only beginning and that a new SVG plugin from Corel is on its way.
I just tested the plugin, it works fine (even in Mozilla if you copy NPViewerPlugin.dll in your plugins directory) as long as the SVG material is contained in a .svg file. A bit limitating, especially when you’d like to mix SVG with XHTML.
Of course, no non-Windows versions have been announced so far, so us Microsoft-free folks will have to wait for Alexander Fritze’s work on Mozilla SVG to be done. Then, there will likely be opensource solutions based on that Mozilla SVG code, and SVG could finally be a free format. We’ll see it bloom for me and you, and we’ll think to ourselves, what a wonderful world.

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