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Adam Turoff wrote:
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> The one thing that *is* clear from Jim Waldo's piece is that premature
> standardization, like premature optimization, is an unnecessary evil in
> this business.
Fair enough. But when the standard comes too late, a proprietary "de
jure" standard may have an unassailable position in the marketplace. If
SVG had existed when Flash was invented the Web would be in a much
better position than it is. Arguably, SVG came at just the right time
technically to build on XML, namespaces, the DOM, etc. But the marketing
message is now much more difficult (at least for the subset of its
market that could conceivably be served by Flash). One could argue that
it would have been better (given 20/20 hindsight and a goal of
popularity) to release a technically weaker Web animation specification
earlier.
That is not, of course, a criticism of anyone in the SVG world. Perhaps
it will be better in the long term that they stressed technology rather
than timing.
Paul Prescod
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