SVG support in IE criticised

Category: Rich Media

September 11th 08, 10:57

World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has highlighted a major graphical flaw in Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser.

Speaking in an interview, Sir Tim claimed that IE is some way behind its competitors as it does not offer built-in support for scalable vector graphic (SVG) objects, the Associated Press reports.

Currently, IE users must download a plug-in from Adobe - something that could impact on the user experience - in order to view such images, which can be altered to fit a screen and zoomed in and out of view without changing the quality of the picture.

This may become more of a problem for Microsoft once Adobe halts support for this plug-in at the start of 2009.

"If you look around at browsers, you'll find that most of them support scalable vector graphics. I'll let you figure out which one has been slow in supporting SVG," Sir Tim stated.

In response, Microsoft said that it has been "evaluating" the issue for some time.

The World Wide Web Consortium is currently developing the SVG Tiny 1.2 specification.

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