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Author here. I saw people saying basically the same in Twitter and almost mentioned that SVG with networking was going be positioned as a Flash competitor (and
by leonidasv 4y ago
Author here.
I saw people saying basically the same in Twitter and almost mentioned that SVG with networking was going be positioned as a Flash competitor (and sure it makes sense!), but found no reliable source on this.
Do you have any source/link/PDF from that time mentioning this goal for SVG? I would happily update the article if you could link it here. Thanks!
- hadlock 4y agoIt just seems like the logical outcome. This is like suggesting asking for adding wireless transmitters and receivers on car keys and cars, then asking for concrete documentation that they are intended to be used for locking and unlocking your car. If there were other applications for this technology, I'd be curious to hear about it.
- Marazan 4y agoEverything was being positioned as a Flash killer. It was so all pervasive you didn't have to explicitly say it. HTML5 was flash killer. The way the Javascript standard developed was a Flash killer. Everything was aiming to kill Flash and take down Adobe.
- shellac 4y agoI wasn't involved in SVG, but knew quite a few of the people involved around the working group. Seeing socket support mentioned certainly raised a smile: one of the team was quite keen on writing a pure-svg IRC client, I think. It wasn't an explicit goal of SVG 1.2 to replace Flash. You should be able to dig out the working group charter to check that. However the way these groups worked was that there were various communities ('stakeholders' if you must) who contributed thoughts and ideas. At least one of the companies implementing SVG certainly did want a Flash competitor, and so was keen on sockets. I think they all knew it wouldn't fly, but they get excited. You see the same with Chrome and stuff like USB and Bluetooth access.