Linked by David Adams on Tue 23rd Sep 2008 00:57 UTC
From eWeek: "In a session billed as the browser wars up close and personal, key Microsoft, Mozilla and Google representatives spoke about the past present and future of the browser platform as they see it . . . one of the issues that stood out to me was that of developer discontent. When the Ajaxians opened up questioning to the audience, an attendee stood up and said Google's announcement of its new browser "was greeted with shock and horror," by him."
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I didn't do it indeed, but I've done SVG and I don't get canvas. Elements in canvas are not identifiable. It's bad in many aspects in my opinion, starting from lack of accessiblity. A lot of people using the web are blind, or have disabilities that prevent them to use the web like the web master think they should use it. SVG is well formed XML and therefore is DOMable. That makes it way better suited for the web in my opinion. If they make canvas because it is easier to use, why don't they put energy in making tools to generate SVG instead? Cairo does it. Why can't they convert canvas to SVG?
By the way, the same is true for flash. They should convert it to SVG and be done with their opaque format.
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I didn't do it indeed, but I've done SVG and I don't get canvas. Elements in canvas are not identifiable. It's bad in many aspects in my opinion, starting from lack of accessiblity. A lot of people using the web are blind, or have disabilities that prevent them to use the web like the web master think they should use it. SVG is well formed XML and therefore is DOMable. That makes it way better suited for the web in my opinion. If they make canvas because it is easier to use, why don't they put energy in making tools to generate SVG instead? Cairo does it. Why can't they convert canvas to SVG?
By the way, the same is true for flash. They should convert it to SVG and be done with their opaque format.
Edited 2008-09-23 13:18 UTC