People forget that SVG was not just meant as a vector graphics format. It was meant as Adobe's competitor to Flash. Adobe wrote most of the original specificati

People forget that SVG was not just meant as a vector graphics format. It was meant as Adobe's competitor to Flash. Adobe wrote most of the original specification, runtime ("Adobe SVG Viewer"), and tooling ("Adobe LiveMotion"). Animation, scripting and multimedia are still in the spec because Flash had those.