SVG: A Sure Bet

[Posted July 23, 2003 by cook]

Paul Prescod has written an article on Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) that was derived from his keynote address at SVG Open 2003. "If you mention Scalable Vector Graphics language (SVG) in a crowd of web developers they will immediately gravitate to the question of whether it can "beat" Flash. Recently SVG Print has focused attention on the question of whether SVG can compete with PDF and Postscript. These are exciting possibilities: it would be great to unify these domains under a standardized, XML-based syntax. But it is ultimately quite limiting to define SVG by its success in replacing these existing technologies. SVG is much more than a Flash and PDF-killer."