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July 01, 2010

SVG Lives: A Follow-up

At the end of 2008, I did a series of posts arguing that SVG still lives despite predictions of it's downfall. I had been hearing these dire predictions for years, and wanted to provide a decent rebuttal: Reports of SVG's death exaggerated.

Last year, I had the good fortune to go to SVG Open 2009. Despite following SVG for years and working with it where ever I could, I was still astounded at the creativity and power of the technology shown by many of the experts that were at the conference.

This year I had the opportunity to present at YAPC::NA on the topic Data Visualization with Perl and SVG. I expected a handful of attendees, and was surprised to be presenting to a packed room containing over 50 people. Apparently, there is quite a bit of interest in SVG.

There have also been a couple of changes in the world of SVG lately that should finally lay to rest the claims of SVG's demise.

* HTML 5 will include SVG support in-line with the HTML.
* IE 9 will finally begin supporting SVG natively.

As with many technologies, it looks like SVG has survived its first ten years and is about ready to break out into the mainstream.

Posted by GWade at July 1, 2010 10:06 PM. Email comments