llbbl
12-07-2004, 08:05 AM
One is an open standard supported by WC3 based on XML.
One is a proprietary standard owned by a private company.
Which one do you think is an more suited to survive in the internet age? Both standards require special plugins to view them. Both standards do essentially the same thing, create vector graphics for the web.
If you didn't figure it out yet, the first one I described is SVG and the second is Flash. I think that Macromedia should be very worried at this point. Their standard is much more developed and supported, but that doesn't mean that they should totally dismiss SVG as a non competitor.
Look for future versions of Mozilla and Firefox to support SVG natively. That means you wouldn't need a plugin. Adobe has written the most popular plugin and have added SVG support into Illustrator, Go Live and FrameMaker. If Macromedia is smart they should be adding SVG into Flash, letting you export to that format from their program. I think you can already code SVG using Dreamweaver, although they don't mention this.
I am looking for Adobe to create a program like Flash MX that will let you design and program SVG elements. They say that you can use it with Go Live program, but I think what they really mean is that you can program SVG like you would an XML file. For SVG to really take over they need to create a Flash like program with a GUI that hides all the programming details in the background.
Currently they have FrameMaker, PageMaker and Indesign that all do the same sort of thing. They need to fuse these products into one big desktop publishing and professional layout program. If I were making the decisions I would nix PageMaker and FrameMaker by combinging them into Indesign. They say that FrameMaker can export in SVG, but they haven't really positioned this product as a Web Graphic production studio.
They need to take the strong points from Illustrator and Premiere and create a brand new product. This software would have a timeline and be able to do everything you can possibly imagine with SVG. That is if they expect to compete with Flash. They can't just sit around and expect everyone to adopt SVG because its an open standard.
I think they are biding their time until the right moment when they will unleash their new vision for motion web graphics. Watch out for SVG Macromedia, your fears will soon become real.
One is a proprietary standard owned by a private company.
Which one do you think is an more suited to survive in the internet age? Both standards require special plugins to view them. Both standards do essentially the same thing, create vector graphics for the web.
If you didn't figure it out yet, the first one I described is SVG and the second is Flash. I think that Macromedia should be very worried at this point. Their standard is much more developed and supported, but that doesn't mean that they should totally dismiss SVG as a non competitor.
Look for future versions of Mozilla and Firefox to support SVG natively. That means you wouldn't need a plugin. Adobe has written the most popular plugin and have added SVG support into Illustrator, Go Live and FrameMaker. If Macromedia is smart they should be adding SVG into Flash, letting you export to that format from their program. I think you can already code SVG using Dreamweaver, although they don't mention this.
I am looking for Adobe to create a program like Flash MX that will let you design and program SVG elements. They say that you can use it with Go Live program, but I think what they really mean is that you can program SVG like you would an XML file. For SVG to really take over they need to create a Flash like program with a GUI that hides all the programming details in the background.
Currently they have FrameMaker, PageMaker and Indesign that all do the same sort of thing. They need to fuse these products into one big desktop publishing and professional layout program. If I were making the decisions I would nix PageMaker and FrameMaker by combinging them into Indesign. They say that FrameMaker can export in SVG, but they haven't really positioned this product as a Web Graphic production studio.
They need to take the strong points from Illustrator and Premiere and create a brand new product. This software would have a timeline and be able to do everything you can possibly imagine with SVG. That is if they expect to compete with Flash. They can't just sit around and expect everyone to adopt SVG because its an open standard.
I think they are biding their time until the right moment when they will unleash their new vision for motion web graphics. Watch out for SVG Macromedia, your fears will soon become real.