SVG supports a lot more than Flash did. Flash only supported quadratic Bézier curves, for instance. (On the other hand, I very much appreciate the simplicity o

SVG supports a lot more than Flash did. Flash only supported quadratic Bézier curves, for instance. (On the other hand, I very much appreciate the simplicity of the Flash approach from a performance point of view. Performance wasn't really a concern when SVG was being developed. Opera's overriding concern with SVG was trying to compete with Flash on features.)