Am I imagining it, or is Microsoft more inclined to speak my language of late?
I’m hearing less about Indigo, Avalon and XAML, and more about REST, Ajax and RSS. And that’s the way it should be - the future lies with cross-platform interoperability, especially with mobile devices such as smartphones, and not with fancy proprietary desktop systems.
However, Microsoft seems to be missing one big piece of this puzzle: SVG. With Opera and Firefox now starting to offer good native SVG support, developers can finally begin to rely on it for cross-platform vector graphics through a browser interface.
Make no mistake, many of the new generation of web applications will need advanced vector graphic displays, and will require that they can co-exist with Ajax techniques in the browser. SVG is the only game in town, and Microsoft is refusing to play ball. I’ve been following the IE7 blog, and have seen little or no mention of SVG - this looks to me like a major tactical blunder on Microsoft’s part.
2 responses so far ↓
1 Adrian // Aug 10, 2005 at 13:19
Perhaps Microsoft were too busy up in the mountains yodelling…or whatever they do in the Rocky Mountains.
2 Adrian // Aug 12, 2005 at 10:33
See this blog:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2005/08/no-more-net.html
Adrian