Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Jan 2010 15:58 UTC, submitted by vivainio

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2008-12-26
Is anyone using SVG for anything apart from static scalable images?
For desktop applications, you don't really care about "standards", you care about the fact that you can deliver your program for the platforms you are interested in, and that the program won't suck horribly (which is what I'd expect an svg application to do).
Web based applications are fine for simple applications, and happen to be trivially portable, but web technologies don't really make glitzy applications easy to build - or, if they do, they are everything but open or standardized (flash, silverlight).
If you are using Linux, you'll have this "monstrosity" out of the box. Likewise if you happen to be using a (future) Nokia phone. Qt runtime is not really that big after all (around 10 megs?).