Google Supports Web Adoption Of Scalable Vector Graphics [SVG]

Scalable Vector Graphics have the support of most of the major browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera. But few web sites currently support this feature. Google and others are going to try and change this. So why should we be interested in this feature?

SVG promises to change the way we view web sites:

Bitmap images, such as this part of Wikipedia’s logo, don’t scale gracefully to different sizes.

(Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)

SVG lets this Wikipedia logo be shown as many pixels wide as you’d like.

(Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNET)

SVG Web can hand off SVG chores to browsers that support the standard. For those that don’t, it runs a Flash program to handle rendering, Neuberg said. “It will never match the performance of native support. It’s not a get-out-of-jail-free card, but it does help developers and users deploy content,” he said.

At the conference, Google plans to show the fruits of work with Wikipedia to use SVG Web. Actual deployment of the technology is still one or two months away, awaiting more testing.

I think that SVG promises to improve our visual experience on the Internet. I look forward to this new improvement.

What about you?

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