Two members of the W3C SVG Working Group Doug Schepers (W3C) and Patrick Dengler (Microsoft), give a tour of SVG and its capabilities, including how the standard is evolving to target web developers who want to build an interoperable experience for users.
SVG + CSS3 + HTML5
MIX10:
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March 15-17th, 2010, Las Vegas
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SVG Open 2010
Paris, France Aug.30 - Sept.1 2010
Keynote
The first confirmed keynote will be held by Ted Johnson from Microsoft titled
"From Zero to SVG in One Year - SVG 1.1 in Internet Explorer 9".
With SVG in IE9 it will be "ubiquitously avalaible" in all modern browsers
- true to our conference motto "Ubiquitous SVG".
For more infomation, go to SVG Open 2010 News
The number of documents found from Google keyword search can not tell everything about the trend, however, I believe, it says something if we compare it over a certain time span. The search result may have some flaws like the keyword "java" includes java island or "Pascal" gets some help from the mathematician Pascal and so on. Also, we may have to consider the net increase of the web pages during the 5 year span. But the comparison still stands if we look at it in relative terms.
Anyway, it an interesting snapshot.
| Query | 2005 | May 2010 | Increase |
|---|---|---|---|
| HTML | 1,610,000,000 | 8,660,000,000 | 5.3 |
| PHP | 454,000,000 | 2,920,000,000 | 6.4 |
| Java | 150,000,000 | 250,000,000 | 1.7 |
| Linux | 86,400,000 | 268,000,000 | 3.1 |
| Perl | 51,600,000 | 45,800,000 | 0.9 |
| JavaScript | 49,900,000 | 556,000,000 | 11.1 |
| Unix | 35,200,000 | 80,200,000 | 2.3 |
| C++ | 28,900,000 | 66,200,000 | 2.3 |
| SQL | 21,200,000 | 118,000,000 | 5.6 |
| MySQL | 20,300,000 | 121,000,000 | 6.0 |
| Pascal | 14,500,000 | 51,100,000 | 3.5 |
| Visual Basic | 8,330,000 | 29,300,000 | 3.5 |
| Fortran | 5,350,000 | 8,380,000 | 1.6 |
| SVG | 3,750,000 | 32,200,000 | 8.6 |
| COBOL | 2,630,000 | 4,510,000 | 1.7 |
| Lisp | 2,300,000 | 5,510,000 | 2.4 |
| SMIL | 1,600,000 | 4,210,000 | 2.6 |
| awk | 912,000 | 3,670,000 | 4.0 |
| VML | 497,000 | 1,570,000 | 3.2 |
| ALGOL | 489,000 | 1,410,000 | 2.9 |
| SNOBOL | 40,900 | 66,700 | 1.6 |
| Cloud Computing | N/A | 11,800,000 | N/A |
| Python | N/A | 41,300,000 | N/A |
| C# | N/A | 47,200,000 | N/A |
| Android | N/A | 85,800,000 | N/A |
| Obama | N/A | 153,000,000 | N/A | Adobe Flash | N/A | 191,000,000 | N/A |
| iPhone | N/A | 415,000,000 | N/A |
| gif | N/A | 448,000,000 | N/A | YouTube | N/A | 771,000,000 | N/A |
| N/A | 1,360,000,000 | N/A | |
| N/A | 1,880,000,000 | N/A | |
| N/A | 2,650,000,000 | N/A |
- Is SVG Back? What Is the Future of Vector Graphics? May 2010
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 (Second Edition) May 2010
Here is an additional description from www.w3.org on SVG and it's future.
SVG or Scalable Vector Graphics is a relatively new World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard, used by a host of companies and organizations, for the creation and display of vector graphic material. SVG is an XML language that allows dynamic creation of content using JavaScript within or outside the context of the World Wide Web.
So, how's the future of SVG looks like: sunny! Let's look at the article below
www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/resources/svgprimer.html
When I started writing this book, a publisher asked for an outline. I included a line in that outline for this particular chapter. It's funny how during the year I did the bulk of the writing, my concept of what the future might hold migrated a lot. During that year, Firefox and Opera came to provide very good native support for SVG. That forced me to rewrite numerous examples I had developed.66 Also during that time, IE lost about 10% of its "market-share," with big gains being made by Firefox, Safari and Opera. My efforts at cross-platform consistency were rewarded! Adobe purchased Macromedia and then abandoned and then reconsidered its support for what had been, for a couple of years, the only way to see SVG on the web. Microsoft released its new operating system, Windows Vista, containing a technology called Silverlight that apparently has many things in common with SVG. Two more years have passed following my completion of the book in Microsoft Word format. During that time the book was adopted for publication by the W3C (the first book ever published by them, I am told). I finally have gotten around to taking the text that Doug Schepers kindly converted from MS Word to HTML and made the much needed completion of that conversion to HTML, including fixing /most/ of the idiosyncratic formatting conversion errors (several thousand of those!). In the meantime, new sets of reviews have arrived, meaning more errors to correct. More importantly though, the political world surrounding SVG has expanded in those next two years. Google has introduced its Chrome browser that provides native SVG support; Apple Safari now supports SVG natively, including some SMIL. Mozilla has renewed its efforts in SVG development by hiring new staff to support that effort. Two radically different open source projects intrinsically associated with SVG: Apache Batik and Inkscape have both grown in power, stability and size of their user communities. Google has agreed to hold the SVG Open 2009 Conference at its headquarters in Mountain View and even Microsoft made an offer to host that particular conference in Boston! ..........
Related to the acceptance of SVG, the author said
SVG's acceptance. Among my friends who are not computing professionals, none has heard of SVG (unless I have talked about it to them), and though most have heard of HTML, I would guess that less than half of them have ever written any of it. Is SVG likely to take off, or is it likely to dwindle? What is going to happened with IE support? What of the alternative technologies in the arena of the Rich Internet Applications (or "Web Applications"): XAML, Flash, Java Applets, XUL? It seems clear that graphically enriched browser experiences involving client-side interaction with graphics, and most likely, client-side vector generation and filter effects will be happening on people's desktops within a few years. The number of Google pages responding to SVG as a search term has expanded 30 fold within a year or so (see Chapter 1: Overview). Google hits for SVG, Flash and Silverlight have all been growing. The "Rich Internet" will happen; how it happens and how soon are the questions. A big key to this will be the degree of browser support, but this is not the only factor that will influence things. The mobile market68appears to like vector graphics, for obvious reasons. For example, it was previously announced that Nintendo's next generation Wii gaming system will include an engine from Opera.com using native SVG 1.1. Within the past month Google announced that Googledocs will contain an SVG-based drawing pad for collaborative drawing (serving VML for Windows users). Right now we have Opera, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox all providing native support. Inkscape, as an open source free-to-use graphics editor supporting SVG as its native file format, has won the hearts of the open source community.
Though there have been several tries to make it 3D, SVG has no 3D support. All major modern web browsers except Microsoft Internet Explorer support and render SVG markup directly. For an up-to-date infomation on the SVG status of IE 9, check the following news.