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SVG for IE via Google?

I know this story is a bit old, but I thought I’d share it anyway. Google have been working on a way to show svg content via flash to browsers that don’t have svg support (Read: Internet Explorer) and they do this via javascript so the developers don’t need to focus too hard on deployment differences between clients.

For me this is interesting for my map work and some other svg works. Especially since it makes it easier to argue for the use of svg, even if for now it ends with flash being used. What we need in the SVG world is leverage.

Thoughts?

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  1. Alex says:
    2009-08-28 at 14:53

    Here is an example of a website, which supposedly uses Visual Basic to handle SVG in IE: http://zubsb.ru/for_you/exchange/rate.aspx . I never tried it in IE, though.

  2. Giorgos says:
    2009-12-06 at 19:08

    Internet Explorer? No SVG support? Simply let this piece of junk die already. Putting up a “please switch to a decent web browser, such as…” message, like YouTube does/did for IE6 users, should do the trick for most people, even for those who didn’t know they were using a web browser in the first place.

    I used to think that Microsoft were unable to improve their browser, but it turns out they’re just unwilling to.