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Subject: Re: FLASH: OT?: and why not swf a w3c standard?
From: John Dowdell
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 23:49:01 +0100

At 1:10 PM 4/9/0, Michael@BTW wrote:
> Last I heard they were considering Shout3d's implementation of
> the java3d api for a w3 standard, its not as if a commercial
> implementation is taboo at the w3c so why not swf instead of SVG?

The World Wide Web Consortium did have a "set of requirements" document for
a Scalable Vector Graphics for many years now. If you do a web search
you'll find a later set of SVG requirements from 1998, which was changed
with editorial comments.

I'm not certain whether the original concise SVG requirments are still on
the web, but from memory they did require a text-based format, so you could
edit graphic descriptions in NotePad or SimpleText. For that reason alone
SWF would not have fit this set of needs.

jd




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