SVG
原来说微软IE7.0支持SVG，我用的是IE7.0测试版，但是并没有支持SVG啊！我在Adobe的网站上看到，ADOBE2007年一月后不再对SVG提供支持了。是不是现在大家对SVG并不看好，大厂商都不重视了！
Adobe has decided to discontinue support for Adobe SVG Viewer. There
are a number of other third-party SVG viewer implementations in the
marketplace, including native support for SVG in many Web browsers.
The SVG language and its adoption in the marketplace have both matured
to the point where it is no longer necessary for Adobe to provide an
SVG viewer.
SVG is an established vector image format. Adobe currently supports
SVG in several of its authoring and server products, including
Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Version Cue, Graphics Server,
FrameMaker, and FrameMaker Server.
Adobe customer support for Adobe SVG Viewer will be discontinued on
January 1, 2007.
For more information on this decision and answers to questions about
the discontinuation of Adobe SVG Viewer, please see
http://www.adobe.com/svg
很显然ADOBE出于商业考虑停止了对ASV的支持
1，对ADOBE的FLASH，甚至PDF形成威胁
2，如果浏览器都内置了SVG，那么ASV没有存在的价值了
乐观的说，ASV是SVG实现中的一种，还有FIREFOX等其它SVG VIEWER，而且未来IE等可能内置SVG支持。但事实上ASV是目前使用最广泛，也是最稳定，对SVG支持最好的SVG VIEWER，而且ADOBE不仅仅停止了SVG的升级，在2008年停止下载，而且不允许其它SVG开发者捆绑发布ASV，这不能不说对SVG社区的一个打击。SVG的未来还不明朗，YAHOO上的SVG社区对ADOBE此举有很大反响。关心的朋友可以到
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/看看
vicos的想法:
在2005年之前力推SVG技术的最大的商业公司非Adobe所属，并且该出版巨头对svg技术发展提供了非常重要的贡献。Adobe看中svg的优势，并推出在线浏览“Adobe SVG Viewer"插件以支持显示svg，而这样做无非就是看中其未来的发展前景及巨大的商业价值。但“Adobe SVG Viewer"毕竟只是一种过渡性的软件，没有主流浏览器内置支持是无法普及SVG技术的，更无法谈起SVG在的商业价值。(获得svg的更多消息请访问 SVG中国 http://www.chinasvg.com)
进入2005年，Adobe收购了Macromedia，并且开始淡化"Adobe SVG Viewer"的支援，这些都是出于其商业目的。不过，也不是我们想像中的那样差，Adobe对"Adobe SVG Viewer"的淡化，并不表示对"svg"技术的谈化,比如其中flash与svg技术会有更多的结合点,并且flash会作为svg的一种扩展形式,再运用到我们生活,这些都是极有可能的。
SVG未来之路不会因为这个产生负面影响，相反adobe收购Macromedia后，其flash会加入更多svg方面的特性,会有更多的人了解这种技术。
再者SVG的特性已经开始让更多的开发者关注，并且出现了很多svg的实际运用例子。其中与webgis的结合，更是让大从对svg有了新的了解。最最关键的是浏览器中后起之秀"Mozilla Firefox"已经内置支持svg了。Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0或者未来小段时间也会支持svg的，这是大势所趋(因为microsoft的强大对手Mozilla已经在这方面超越了他,Mozilla Firefox对svg的发展会促使Microsoft对svg开发。)
当解决了SVG发展最大的难题:不用插件，浏览器内置支持浏览SVG时，SVG的普及以及更多领域的运用时代也就到来了，这个日子的到来会比我们想像得快。
1，肯定了ADOBE过去对SVG的贡献
2，对ADOBE的商业考虑表示理解
3，对如此仓卒草率的决定表示不满
4，建议ADOBE捐献ASV源代码
5，最后，建议ADOBE不要停止ASV下载
Pat的回信中表示ADOBE还没有最后决定，还有根据用户反馈进行修改的可能。
原文如下：
> Hi Pat,
> Now that I am a member of the community and no longer an employee of
> Adobe, here is my reaction:
>
> (1) First off, I believe that Adobe deserves a great amount of
> appreciation for their contributions to SVG and the open standards
> world for their activities in previous years. Adobe provided a
> high-quality free implementation of an SVG viewer at large expense.
> (Pat, you know this perhaps better than anyone.) Adobe also has
> provided (and presumably will continue to provide) excellent support
> for SVG in some of its products, particularly Illustrator. Adobe has
> also made large contributions within the standards community on SVG.
>
> (2) It is understandable that at some point Adobe would announce the
> end-of-life for Adobe SVG Viewer. Since the Macromedia acquisition (at
> least, perhaps even earlier), it is clear that Adobe doesn't consider
> the SVG viewer to be strategic. Also, browsers are adding SVG support
> natively.
>
> (3) HOWEVER, I believe that some of the details regarding this
> end-of-life announcement are unacceptable to the community and not in
> Adobe's own best interests. To me, it is OK to stop "support"
> (presumably developer support and security fixes) on Adobe SVG Viewer
> in the relative near-term, but instead of giving four months of
> advanced notice (i.e., 1/1/07), it should be something measured in
> years, something in the range of 2-4 years. (Note: 5 years is the
> usual amount for developer-oriented software.)
>
> (4) It reflects badly on Adobe that it did not donate the ASV source
> code (at least the higher-level logic that sits above the graphics
> rendering engine) to open soure. If Adobe isn't going to use ASV,then
> it should give it to the community so they can use it. Given how Adobe
> promoted industry adoption of ASV in the early days and thereby
> convinced many developers to build mission-critical applications using
> SVG, it is the least that Adobe could do.
>
> (5) But the worst part of this announcement is the removal of ASV
> downloads as of 1/1/08, with no option for others to host a different
> ASV download site. As others have pointed out, this will be
> devastating to those poor souls who made a commitment to ASV in the
> past and need their deployed SVG applications to continue working in
> IE, which today has something like 80% market share and is unlikely to
> support SVG natively before a couple of years go by. This particular
> decision reflects badly on Adobe as a business partner with
> developers. If nothing else, I appeal to Adobe to rethink this part of
> their decision. How much does it cost a company to maintain a single
> web page that is already working? If ASV quits working in some
> situations, such as ASV not running under Vista, then just add text to
> the download page alerting people that ASV has been EOL'd and is known
> not to work with Vista. (But the better approach would be to open
> source ASV so that the community can fix any such bugs.)
>
> Jon Ferraiolo
> IBM
Jon,
Thank you for your thoughtful email. Adobe is collecting feedback on
this announcement, and the decision makers are considering the
points that you and others have made.
Pat
至于对SVG的前景，有人悲观，也有人乐观，下面是一个比较乐观的开发者，
I think this is the beggining and not the end.
Firefox, Safari, Opera will support SVG pretty fully by end 2007
Emiasys will have a plugin available for IE
XAML will be out and supported in IE7, 8
IE8 will have XAML & SVG support
If all the above fails then Google will buy Opera and Firefox and everyone
will download the browser and replace IE as everybody loves Google.
Everyone decides not to download flash player cos know that all it does is
play annoying adverts.
We will all be on high paid jobs because we are SVG experts :)
Richard
但愿如他所料