SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), one of the most powerful medium to display graphics has been in existence since 1999, but didn’t had the share of success that it should have enjoyed owing to the fact that Internet Explorer wan’t much compatible though almost every other web browser supported it.
SVG is an open standeard, it’s images and their behaviours are defined in XML text files. This means that they can be searched, indexed, scripted and, if required, compressed. Since they are XML files, SVG images can be created and edited with any text editor, but specialized SVG-based drawing programs are also available.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, including IE8, the latest final release, is the only current major browser not to provide native SVG support, though there were plugins available for Internet Explorer 6 to render SVG graphics but they have to installed by users and thus web-developers constantly neglected its capabilities in support of uniform experience for users.
When Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer 9 in preview build to the world, everyone was certain about their rise, not that their preview build was something spectacular but the team leading the development of IE9 had some great knowledgeable persons.
On January 5, 2010, a senior manager of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft announced on his official blog that Microsoft had just requested to join the SVG Working Group of the W3C(World Wide Web Consortium).
IE9 supported SVG 1.1, and thus IE9 also became the first browser to provide hardware-accelerated SVG support.
With SVG, Microsoft is looking to utilize hardware of the computer for accelerating graphical scripts written in SVG and performed through its browser. SVG holds great capabilities, but web-developers have get used to it to know its real abilities as they neglected it for almost a decade. Microsoft did a great thing by adding support to it but the content has to be written and it can take more than a year of now to SVG in full glory.
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Microsoft's IE9 team is awesome. It has few great knowledgeable people that is really showing in their approach now.
It was nice to see Microsoft finally getting grasp of things, I got introduced to SVG through a mobile phone called sony ericsson k750i. It had a animation graphic with svg extension and i googled it out to find its roots but it never took off. I think now it will.