August 6, 2000
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A comment received through my viewer mail:
From: Ian McDougallTo: Grant HutchinsonDate: 05/08/2000 03:03 PMSubject: Re: A Milestone For SVG “Looks like Flash is the RealAudio of vector graphics, whereas SVG is the QuickTime. Bandwidth will eventually make the differences irrelevant.”
The comparison is fair except for the fact that QuickTime works wonderfully and looks great on every platform it has been released on, but RealMedia simply doesn’t. One of the strengths of SVG is the fact that is it open and based on XML. It’s as human readable as you can get with any graphics file format. Yes, the file size bloats up a bit with SVG compared with Flash when executing the same basic visuals, but then again, most of the Flash out there today is less than optimized and could stand to be on a bit of a data diet. Unfortunately, I have a feeling that along with file size, bandwidth will also make quality of content irrelevant. You can always stuff more crap through a bigger pipe.
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