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Microsoft's IE not good enough for web creator
SIR TIM BERNERS LEE, inventor of the Interwibble and current director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has a gripe with the Vole’s Internet Explorer browser.
In a recent interview, the creator of the great WWW, noted that although he was loath to specifying his preference of web browser, IE just wasn’t up to scratch when it came to graphics encoding.
Sir Berners-Lee’s W3C recommends a type of web image which is encoded as a scalable vector graphic (SVG). SVGs are easily resized and zoomed into without becoming a mess of blurry pixels. Mighty-Soft, however, doesn’t use SVGs, it uses Vector Markup Language (VML).
IE users who want to see SVG objects currently have to rely on an Adobe plug-in, which they must download themselves, as opposed to built in support for SVG in both Firefox and Safari. As if that wasn’t annoying enough, Adobe might be discontinuing its SVG plug in support come January 1st.
The Vole is apparently aware that w3C are not amused and has noted in a statement, "SVG support is something that we have been evaluating for some time. " Adding: "We recognise the demand for vector graphics from web developers, and realise this is a high-priority demand."
Good, it appears Mighty-Soft is starting to see the bigger picture. µ
L’Inq
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The Vole is Microsoft, Jack. duh
It's even on wackypedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inquirer#Nicknames_and_terminology
A selection of things IE users are missing out on because of this flaw: http://svg.startpagina.nl
"See the bigger picture"
Haha, I see what you did there!!

Well, unintentional funnies can be good too.

shonky.
For the same reason they work with Adobe try to keep JavaScript in the dark ages.
SVG + JavaScript = SilverLight or Flash but with no lockin.
And you can do it all in the browser, on any platform.
My God! Web computing might progress past 1996 and then they would be shown to be the ludites they are.
Here we have a qualified webologist, and when asked why IE is not up to snuff, the only thing he can say against it is that it doesn't handle graphics very well ?
IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY ?!?
Jesus H. Christ on a bicycle, Tim, couldn't you have mentioned any other of the 1001 points that make any version of IE a DISASTER when it comes to standards compliance ?
Like, I don't know, Active-X and its GAPING SECURITY HOLE ?
Handling graphics is really the least of IE's problems Tim. But you're obviously not the one who has to suffer with website coding on client site.
Honestly, I haven't seen many complaints besides this W3C guy's. It's one of those formats that have quietly become forgotten over time, and I'm surprised Microsoft really cares that much to think about supporting it. I'm sure they'd rather have people using Silverlight, and I'm sure Adobe also doesn't care much, as it'd rather have people using Flash. So SVG is another W3C that will go unheeded.
What is with articles like this referring to the "Vole"? What do rodents have to do with the topic? I did a web search and didn't have any luck beyond the known definition of the word.