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Re: [Dynapi-Chat] DHTML? SVG!
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From: Raymond S. <dst...@or...> - 2002-01-04 03:14:28
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<html> <br> Related to SVG, and its quest for world domination.<br><br> <emote> sets a hand-painted blue "rock" next to his keyboard. I'm feeling poetic today.<br><br> It seems that every year or so a debate framed by the powers of SVG wanders into our digital mists and creates a crescendo of "awe and quiet whispers" as to the frail underpinnings of DHTML as an Interface Design Model (hereafter referred to as IDM).<br><br> Now, I personally don't have any issues with SVG's, in fact if we had a better grasp of Einstein's time-space continuum we would all like to "rewind" and integrate SVG into the very fabric of the browser itself. But, herein lies the problem.<br><br> We can't rewind and integrate, and the politics of business have created sufficient barriers to sentence SVG's to a prison built of Plug-In Software Structure (hereafter referred to as PISS).<br><br> See, it's not the SVG that's the problem, it's the vehicle it travels in. No right minded developer would use PISS as a IDM because PISS belongs in very specific containers that are "sub" to the IDM of the page as a whole.<br><br> Translated, this means that a page must be constructed with an open architecture that allows the broadest array of insert able features (XHTML, XML, PISS). <br><br> This is becoming even more important with the explosive growth of pop-up, pop-back, pop-in-your-face advertising that has given birth to a slew of new software products called Pop-Up Killer and Panicware's Pop-Up Stopper. In the future pages will need to be self-contained "events" that self integrate the broadest array of feature sets. So, you see... PISS fits, but in a defined "bucket" within the whole of the IDM.<br><br> Now on to the Illusion of Penetration that marketing done well creates. Macromedia cites 98.3% browser penetration with Flash. The following is from Macromedia's site based on a December 2001 market study (this was hidden well and deep for a reason).<br><br> <u>Flash Version<x-tab> </x-tab> 2<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab> 3<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab> 4<x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab> 5 <font color="#FFFFFF"><b>a</u>sh 5</b></font> <br> US <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>98.3% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>97.8% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>95.1% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>86.2% <br> Canada <x-tab> </x-tab>98.6% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>98.4% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>97.1% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>88.7% <br> Europe <x-tab> </x-tab>97.1% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>96.7% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>94.6% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>88.2% <br> Asia <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>97.6% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>95.4% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>93.4% <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>86.5%<br><br> Try doing Flash to today's standards in Flash version 2 or try selling a client on IE5+ only with it's 86%+ penetration. Won't happen. How has Macromedia so effectively pulled the wool over every ones eyes? You can't even find statistics on Adobes open-source efforts, though I know they exist. Things lie under rugs for reasons.<br><br> So, ...<br><br> At the end of the day let me use my DHTML IDM to paint the most effective and broadest message using a completely open ended architecture. This allows me to use PISS when I need too and PISS can include Flash, Shockwave, 3D Animators, Quicktime, Realplayer, etc... Try dropping "any" of the latter plug-ins into the first (FLASH) and I think you will have answered the question for yourself.<br><br> You can't...<br><br> Raymond<br><br> As a note, I have the newest Adobe Reader 5 (software package, including distiller) and I had to download the Adobe SVG player when I went to peruse these predicted gems of global interactive domination.</html> |
