Adobe to Discontinue Adobe SVG Viewer
The news that Adobe are discontinuing support for their SVG Viewer browser plug-in on Jan 1st 2008 is bad news for the SVG community in general, and bad for anyone who has existing SVG content on their sites. This doesn’t mean the plugin will disappear overnight but content formats that may not render on the majority of browser are very unattractive to content producers.
Internet Explorer 7 has never had SVG support and Microsoft’s current stance seems is still to tell IE users to install the Adobe SVG plugin. Meanwhile folks over at svg.org are lobbying Microsoft for native SVG support but maybe they are not listening? Firefox 2, on the other hand, does support SVG natively.
By the way, Adobe publish some useful scripts to prompt the user to install the SVG plug-in if required. However, they need some tweaking to get pages that use these scripts to let Firefix 2 just use its native SVG support. Modified versions that I created to work with both Firefox 2 and IE 6/7 are available here.
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