12/18/2023 0 Comments Boxy svg font![]() However, the principal advantage of these shape classes is that they have been designed to integrate into the Avalon programming model. Of course, IE never supported FOs, Edge has only just added it.Ī frequently asked question is: Why doesn't Avalon just use SVG? On the face of it, it seems strange to invent a new way of representing vector graphics in markup when a standard already exists. It forced us to use HTML as foreign objects in SVG to get word wrap. Especially, regarding word-wrap in SVG, it's our top pain point as well. The last 10 years of my working life have been based around SVG and VML, my co-founder and I would tell you a similar story. ![]() We, fortunately, decided we didn't trust Adobe prior to them killing the IE SVG plugin and were running fully on VML at that point. Getting Adobe SVG or Sliverlight added onto IE into large corporate environments was near on impossible. The key thing, as well, with VML is that it was built into IE natively. MS thought they had a head-start and could win the vector battle. SVG had the first very basic version in Firefox 1.5 at the end of 2005, and needed Firefox 3.0 in 2008 before you could say it was reasonably complete. It was also pretty complete with IE 6 in 2001. VML, although badly documented, can/could do much of what SVG can do, in a few cases it does it better. VML was Microsoft's SVG alternative in IE 5 through 8, not Sliverlight. The author seems to have missed, apart from an initial mention, VML out completely. "Rather than embracing SVG as an alternative, Microsoft pursued a blatant copy of Flash in their too-late-to-the-table Silverlight effort."
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