SVG Open 2011: Where SVG meets the Web
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is a key aspect of HTML5, bringing W3C-standard DOM-based
vector graphics to the Web. IE9 implements the core modules of
SVG 1.1 (Second Edition) and does so in a fully hardware-accelerated manner,
like the rest of IE9’s fully hardware-accelerated HTML5. We blogged about SVG in
IE9 (here
and here),
our involvement in the W3C SVG Working Group (here,
here,
here, and
here), and our attendance at SVG Open 2010 (here
and
here).
Regarding SVG Open, Microsoft will be hosting
SVG Open 2011 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 17-20, 2011, at our
New England Research & Development Center. The theme of this year’s
conference is “Where SVG meets the Web.” Though SVG itself has been around for a
while, it is HTML5 that promises to bring it to the everyday Web. It is only now
with IE9 and recent versions of other browsers that SVG content can be embedded
inline in HTML and used as a source for the HTML <img> element. In many respects,
now is the time when SVG meets the Web.
Call for Participation
Though Microsoft is the event host, we are not the event organizers. Since its first
conference in the summer of 2002, SVG Open has been organized by a committee of
dedicated volunteers who review submissions, select among them, and coordinate with
the chosen presenters. The SVG Open 2011 organizing committee is currently
calling for participants who wish to present a paper or teach a course.
As stated on the SVG Open 2011 Web site:
Historically we have suggested a list of topics for this conference. Now that SVG
is natively available on all major browsers and integrated into HTML, we want to
hear from the SVG developer communities (Web, mobile, and otherwise) on topics ranging
from but not limited to art and design, integrated Web experience, webapps and user
interfaces, the sciences, mapping, data visualization, and all other uses of SVG.
Join us in October
Mark your calendars now to join us in Cambridge in October. Who knows? Perhaps we
can all attend the
first game of the 2011 World Series at Fenway Park.
—Patrick Dengler, Senior Program Manager, Internet Explorer, and member, W3C SVG
Working Group
Comments
Anonymous
March 12, 2011
stop saying about blahblah. tell me why hindi unicode font and other unicode font not work well as chrome and firefox done in their browser. i found that their is some mistake in rendering unicode in IE9. what is it usable when only work with english. are you really care about other language [unicode-based] like hindi , urdu and ChineseAnonymous
March 12, 2011
SVG is NOTHING to do with HTML5 at all, let alone a "key aspect" of it. Can you Microsoft idiots just step out of the browser arena already please. You've isolated yourself from the web community for so long, no one will ever take your seriously again. Nothing that comes out of Microsoft is even worth a second glance these days.Anonymous
March 12, 2011
Section 4.8.16 of the HTML5 specification (www.w3.org/.../the-map-element.html) defines the <svg> element as one which is part of HTML5. Prior to HTML5, <svg> could only be used inline in XHTML documents but not inline in the much-more-common HTML documents. HTML5 defines <svg> as an HTML-recognized element, eliminating the need for declaration of an XML namespace.Anonymous
March 12, 2011
Can we expect Animated PNG format support in the Future? en.wikipedia.org/.../APNG http://animatedpng.com/Anonymous
March 12, 2011
The comment trolls are complaining about how the IE team is supporting SVG now? I feel bad for the MS employees who have to read these.Anonymous
March 12, 2011
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March 12, 2011
"SVG content can be [...] used as a source for the HTML <img> element." Unfortunately the Image will not be 'origin clean'. IMHO it should be e.g. when no 'different origin' resources are referenced by the svg, and the svg is 'origin clean'.Anonymous
March 12, 2011
@Ryan Sharp Can I post your comment on failblog? ;-)Anonymous
March 12, 2011
"Now that SVG is natively available on all major browsers " Just too bad that it will take some time until the older versions not supporting SVG die off… :(Anonymous
March 12, 2011
VML RIP 2000-2009 We hardly new you, but shame on you, you managed to delay our beloved SVG for long time. You will join quite a few other non-standards technologies, from Microsoft and others. BTW I don't assume malice on Microsoft's side, just pride, ego, and a feeling of being top-dog, i.e. stupidity. Open standards on the other hand win in the long run, IN SPITE OF EVERY EFFORT OF MICROSOFT AND OTHER COMPANIES TO HINDER THEM. (hey if developers target open standards, why the heck would people buy windows) This is starting to to filter into proprietary guys heads. Still some don't get it and insist on statements like: Sliverlight is 245% faster to develop then the miserable HTML/CSS/JAVASCRIPT. I am using SL only as an example here. The only thing that bugs me still, is how MSFT managed to cloud the issue, and instead of emphasizing its love for standards (its not standards, it's "same markup", yea, sure) it emphasizes FPS, ans bashes other browsers. Browsers which talked about standards many years before Microsoft. Microsft: one heck of a marketing company. This following list is in spite of Microsoft. That is it had no hand in any of them, and had competing tech: TCP/IP HTTP HTML JavaScript SVG HTML5 (!) On the other, MSFT did have something to do with: CSS XMLHttpRequestAnonymous
March 12, 2011
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March 12, 2011
@Klimax: although I'm pro open source and all that, Meni's messages are a waste of everyone's time. There are trolls on all sides.Anonymous
March 12, 2011
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March 13, 2011
Compare results from the following (with IE9RC, FF4RC, Chrome-whatever, Safari 5.4.0): test262.ecmascript.org/default.html sputnik.googlelabs.com/run www.webkit.org/.../sunspider.html krakenbenchmark.mozilla.org/index.html v8.googlecode.com/.../run.html Then realize that IE9 is overall prevailing in following the standards. @ieblog, please consider fixing Chakra for the 18 failed tests on ecmascript's test and those failed in sputnik test in the final release of IE9.Anonymous
March 13, 2011
Klimax, my point is very simple. Google contributes to and is committed to open standards (and open source, that's a different issue) in one day more then MS did in its lifetime. Simple as that. But hey, who said that MS should be committed to open standards more then to profits anyway. Another point is also that suddenly MS is an open standards angle, as this post might lead you to believe.Anonymous
March 13, 2011
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March 13, 2011
Stop goo-fying around plz!Anonymous
March 13, 2011
can you elaborate the logic behind the redcross in the Toolbars and Extensions icon, under Manage Add-ons?Anonymous
March 13, 2011
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March 13, 2011
@meni: You have added more unsubstantiated claims.(at best) Google contributes more then MS? Funny and with no proof it. Nice. Of course I'd say it is no where near to be true,but who cares what is true and corect when it suits one. Second your last sentence is unreadable. Care to reword it? And I spotted you ignored rest of my comment as if you didn't need to provide substance for your claims. @Fact. Opnion,opion,opinion. And shared by too few users. Even on Ars techinca it has troubles,so... BTW: blogs.msdn.com/.../browsers-accommodate-incorrect-http-content-length-and-sites-depressingly-depend-on-it.aspxAnonymous
March 13, 2011
cit web ne fonctione pas ; com mediacenter ; ni internet explorer 8 ; ocie windows live je trau de problem et je ne cone pas resone éde moi instale et souvgardes toute les chose nessecer poure une bone foncionalite ! merciAnonymous
March 13, 2011
I can't believe we don't have some Yankees fans taking issue with the last sentence of this post.Anonymous
March 13, 2011
Klimax, you might think MS is as committed to standards and openness as Google, I don't. Google says today and said so in the past: "we want the web platform to rival the desktop. with open standards, not vendor specific." I have yet to hear that clearly from MS. They would be fools to say that, as it would render Windows irrelevant to most people. They are dragging their feet and i understand that. They are delaying the inevitable. I understabd it but i hate it. I kn ow MS is a large corporation, with many departments. But still i blame it for this. You are right that i didn't answer your points, sorry. I am convinced that MS had very little with the development of the web. Still collecting evidence. I'd be happy to hear your version of the history of the web and Microsoft. BTW, I have nothing against the (new) IE team at Microsoft. As I see it, they went against many of the things the typified MS in the past. I must say they are a brave bunch inside MS.Anonymous
March 13, 2011
@ieblog: I guess we are just following procedure. A bug will be filed in connect when your previsions fail to materialize... please feel free to close it as "Can't Fix" :)Anonymous
March 13, 2011
Beautiful White Spinner - Ajax Loader emulated from Animated PNG to JavaScript engine (for I.E., Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox) my.opera.com/.../beautiful-white-spinner-ajax-loader-emulated-from-animated-png-to-javascript-eAnonymous
March 13, 2011
Beautiful White Spinner - Ajax Loader emulated from Animated PNG to JavaScript engine (for I.E., Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox) my.opera.com/.../beautiful-white-spinner-ajax-loader-emulated-from-animated-png-to-javascript-eAnonymous
March 13, 2011
As of today... after you posted this... as per your quote: "Now that SVG is natively available on all major browsers " - I call Shinanigans! Today, Absolutely ZERO of your shipping browsers support SVG natively. More importantly, IE8 and IE7... and gulp... even IE6 use is still widespread. If you had said it was available on all Modern Browsers then you would be correct because they all do, and have done for years. However IE has never been part of the modern browser group since releasing IE6. IE9 has the potential of joining that group as long as it has fixed up all the global namespace pollution and its inability to set innerHTML properly etc. etc. Once IE 6, 7, & 8 are a distant memory... then and only then can we start claiming that SVG is natively available in all browsers.Anonymous
March 13, 2011
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March 13, 2011
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March 13, 2011
[I have failed to find the reference, but still submit this someone might corroborate this] About Microsoft's view of open standards and interoperability. I read in a comment (on the blog mini-microsoft) what was Bill Gates thought of dotnet and silverlight. Bill called it: "the f*&^%k windows technology". I assume he referred to the fact that there are implementation of it on other platforms, and it renders the native API irrelevant. Remember, this is his view of Silverlight, an inside tech of Microsoft, imagine what was his view of an open capable web would be.Anonymous
March 13, 2011
microsoft.com/opensource now shut the folkup willya?Anonymous
March 13, 2011
"It's arguably good for owners of existing MS-based unscalable web-sites, but not for new development" lol, please get a clue, before talking nonsense :DAnonymous
March 13, 2011
Meni, how old are you? Have you done any actual development work? Do you actually know anything about the things you talk about?Anonymous
March 14, 2011
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March 14, 2011
Web site 2011 in HTML5 - jquery - SVG animate and VML (for I.E. 6 at 9, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome and Firefox) look at this : www.plein-air-locations.fr www.progial.fr www.cyberhal.com www.clubaboville.fr www.aurea25.com Building with editor wysiwyg : PAGEDITOR PRO V9 (French solution)Anonymous
March 14, 2011
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March 14, 2011
Kraken benchmark seems useless because it uses javascript libraries that are not recognizing IE9 yet. Those libraries ssems to be serving IE9 suboptimized script because those scripts are not yet aware that IE9 has much better conformance in javascript than its predecessors.Anonymous
March 14, 2011
CSS 2.1 test suite results page: test.csswg.org/.../resultsAnonymous
March 14, 2011
IE9RC bug report - if you have the following HTML, IE9RC will not render it correctly [button][img src="someIconWithTransparency"/] Do stuff[/button] (obviously adjust tags to suit) The icon will not have a transparent background (it appears white).. until you mouseover it. PS I submitted this bug via Firefox, because I couldn't even get the form to submit on the IE blog using IE9RC. (major fail people)Anonymous
March 14, 2011
Gah! - how do I turn of this stupid ClearType in IE9RC - it is horrendous!Anonymous
March 14, 2011
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March 14, 2011
Geolocation in Firefox 3.x and Chrome is 50-100feet more accurate than in IE9RC. On a related note, the imagery on Bing is about 2-3 years behind Google's.Anonymous
March 14, 2011
just had fun playing the texas holdem game... was up $8100 when player 2 (top) couldn't decide if folding was the right option with no cash available ;-) (player 1 already folded) img858.imageshack.us/.../ie9texasholdemfail.png cute game - I look forward to perusing the source... I made a similar game once...Anonymous
March 14, 2011
Pinned sites are quite goofy... I pinned the pin site radio site... got the radio icon etc. then I opened a new tab and went to gmail. then closed the radio site... the icon is still the radio site, the arrows are the wrong color, and I have no home icon to click on. It all seems kind of pointless to me if I lose all control of my browser.Anonymous
March 14, 2011
In IE9RC if you open a popup window with the url about:blank, then from the opener set the content of the popup (e.g. say document.write (and document.close), or using the DOM) all is fine, but if you click on the "right-arrow" "Goto" at the end of the address bar (e.g. to load about:blank into the window... it starts the spinner, then hangs while the spinner spins forever)Anonymous
March 14, 2011
@meni: Looks like fun is over. You have zero. In fact you have destroyed your own base. Few points: Azure joke? You are out of depth. Learn about competing techonoliges and their weaknesses and strengths (reviews will help you) so you don't look so clueless. For example: arstechnica.com/.../microsoft-azure-for-nubcakes.ars arstechnica.com/.../the-future-of-microsoft-windows-azure-platform-as-a-service.ars (BTW It suprised you like Google-mode restricted cloud) You want only words? I just want to see actions. After all they speak more louder then mere words. I take pragmatism before idealism. Less headaches for me in the sys/netadmin role. Failed to find reference. Dismised. Posting link to opensource@MS finished off rest of your claims. Thanks.Anonymous
March 14, 2011
Meni: BTW: I want pragmatism. I generaly could careless about whether techology is open or not. It has to meet criterions,must be usable and shouldn't increase headaches. It is strange what you read into my comments.What you think I said didn't follow from them.Anonymous
March 14, 2011
Glad to see that the Zune finally died - it was dead in the water trying to follow in Apple's footsteps. www.engadget.com/.../microsoft-reportedly-kills-off-zune-hardware-will-focus-on-soft Wonder when you'll give up on the windows Fone Se7enAnonymous
March 14, 2011
Can you guys reproduce connect.microsoft.com/.../unable-to-render-svg-xml-object ?? Please vote up.Anonymous
March 14, 2011
Now that everybody's supporting "real" XHTML can't we process XIncludes on the client? This would at least be slightly more ideal than sticking fragments of XML into HTML5 in order to get SVG. Surely MSXML supports this as do the parsers used by every other major browser.Anonymous
March 15, 2011
Come on, Miguel, animated gifs are good enough for most people. :)Anonymous
March 16, 2011
There are obvious advantages while using APNG. One of the primate goals of APNG was to introduce an animated image format that supported 24-bit color with an 8-bit alpha channels. Pixels in an animated GIF are either completely opaque or completely transparent. This demo has uses an APNG over a HTML <div> to hide or reveal the content. The image is swapped, using Javascript, when you click the button. people.mozilla.com/.../demo.html my.opera.com/.../beautiful-white-spinner-ajax-loader-emulated-from-animated-png-to-javascript-e
