Horse Feathers
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) Deprecated.
RIP Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
Deprecated equals don’t use it. The momentum in the web-world has slowed to grinding halt.
Nick Hodge
SVG is NOT FUCKING DEPRECIATED!
What happened, Nick, is that your employer, Adobe, who was a industry leader and supporter of SVG acquired a company whose primary asset was a competing proprietary format with massive adoption.
The “sad” thing here Nick is that Adobe dumped it’s investment and support for an open standard to support a closed, proprietary one. So stop with the FUD… to quote your employer:
Adobe and open standards. Open standards promote choice, provide lower-cost solutions, and facilitate interoperability.
…blah, blah blagh.
There does still seem to be some breath left in SVG outside of Adobe:
Our goal with WebKit is to make SVG a first-class image format, so that it can be used anywhere you might use a PNG, a GIF or a JPG. In other words, all of the following should be possible:
<img src=”tiger.svg”/>div {
background-image: url(tiger.svg)
}li {
list-style-image: url(bullet.svg)
}
