Thanks for writing that up. I've gotten more interested in SVG ever since Protovis's successor d3 adopted an approach of writing SVG directly. d3's has some i

Thanks for writing that up. I've gotten more interested in SVG ever since Protovis's successor d3 adopted an approach of writing SVG directly. d3's has some impressive demos built on top of SVG in an impressively small amount of code: http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ I do think it's unfortunate that lots of W3C standards like SVG were well-positioned to be very widely used, but ended up being so big, complicated, and not informed by actual implementations. I've ranted about this before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521885 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521885