[News] Microsoft's Silent Attack on SVG Leads to Response from Google

[Roy Schestowitz]

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SVG Web: Google Brings SVG Support to Internet Explorer

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| Microsoft is a true master when it comes to ignoring Web standards. Thanks to
| Google, that could now change in terms of the SVG vector graphics format.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/SVG-Web-Google-Brings-SVG-Support-to-Internet-Explorer

Even TimBL complained about IE due to SVG.

Recent:

Microsoft's IE not good enough for web creator

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| 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.
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| 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.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/11/microsoft-ie-enough-web-creator
http://tinyurl.com/4898oc
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[JeffM]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>SVG Web: Google Brings SVG Support to Internet Explorer

Truth be told, Internet Exploder STILL doesn't do SVG.
What this plug-in does is open Adobe Flash.
*That* is what does the SVG rendering.