Adobe has released their SVG viewer plug-in for web browsers. You can download it here. I haven't installed it yet, but I played around with the beta a few months ago, and even that seemed pretty solid, so this should be ready to go. SVG stands for scalable vector graphics. Unlike bitmap graphics (which is everything on the web except for some flash stuff,) vector graphics allow for zooming with no pixelation of the image. Once SVG content is deployed, this will really mean a step up in visual quality of the web. Also, some really cool things are going to be possible with java script. It will be a little while before this really starts to happen, but it's great that Abode is pushing this forward. (Illustrator 9.0 will export SVG.)
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- jim 6-07-2000 3:07 pm