-- 作者：wwwtiger
-- 发布时间：9/22/2006 10:45:00 AM
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对ADOBE停止SVG支持，在SVG开发社区中有很多评论，分析和建议，其中一个比较有代表性的是一位原ADOBE员工回信： 1，肯定了ADOBE过去对SVG的贡献
2，对ADOBE的商业考虑表示理解
3，对如此仓卒草率的决定表示不满
4，建议ADOBE捐献ASV源代码
5，最后，建议ADOBE不要停止ASV下载 Pat的回信中表示ADOBE还没有最后决定，还有根据用户反馈进行修改的可能。 原文如下：
> Hi Pat,
> Now that I am a member of the community and no longer an employee of
> Adobe, here is my reaction:
>
> (1) First off, I believe that Adobe deserves a great amount of
> appreciation for their contributions to SVG and the open standards
> world for their activities in previous years. Adobe provided a
> high-quality free implementation of an SVG viewer at large expense.
> (Pat, you know this perhaps better than anyone.) Adobe also has
> provided (and presumably will continue to provide) excellent support
> for SVG in some of its products, particularly Illustrator. Adobe has
> also made large contributions within the standards community on SVG.
>
> (2) It is understandable that at some point Adobe would announce the
> end-of-life for Adobe SVG Viewer. Since the Macromedia acquisition (at
> least, perhaps even earlier), it is clear that Adobe doesn't consider
> the SVG viewer to be strategic. Also, browsers are adding SVG support
> natively.
>
> (3) HOWEVER, I believe that some of the details regarding this
> end-of-life announcement are unacceptable to the community and not in
> Adobe's own best interests. To me, it is OK to stop "support"
> (presumably developer support and security fixes) on Adobe SVG Viewer
> in the relative near-term, but instead of giving four months of
> advanced notice (i.e., 1/1/07), it should be something measured in
> years, something in the range of 2-4 years. (Note: 5 years is the
> usual amount for developer-oriented software.)
>
> (4) It reflects badly on Adobe that it did not donate the ASV source
> code (at least the higher-level logic that sits above the graphics
> rendering engine) to open soure. If Adobe isn't going to use ASV,then
> it should give it to the community so they can use it. Given how Adobe
> promoted industry adoption of ASV in the early days and thereby
> convinced many developers to build mission-critical applications using
> SVG, it is the least that Adobe could do.
>
> (5) But the worst part of this announcement is the removal of ASV
> downloads as of 1/1/08, with no option for others to host a different
> ASV download site. As others have pointed out, this will be
> devastating to those poor souls who made a commitment to ASV in the
> past and need their deployed SVG applications to continue working in
> IE, which today has something like 80% market share and is unlikely to
> support SVG natively before a couple of years go by. This particular
> decision reflects badly on Adobe as a business partner with
> developers. If nothing else, I appeal to Adobe to rethink this part of
> their decision. How much does it cost a company to maintain a single
> web page that is already working? If ASV quits working in some
> situations, such as ASV not running under Vista, then just add text to
> the download page alerting people that ASV has been EOL'd and is known
> not to work with Vista. (But the better approach would be to open
> source ASV so that the community can fix any such bugs.)
>
> Jon Ferraiolo
> IBM
Jon, Thank you for your thoughtful email. Adobe is collecting feedback on
this announcement, and the decision makers are considering the
points that you and others have made. Pat
至于对SVG的前景，有人悲观，也有人乐观，下面是一个比较乐观的开发者， I think this is the beggining and not the end. Firefox, Safari, Opera will support SVG pretty fully by end 2007 Emiasys will have a plugin available for IE XAML will be out and supported in IE7, 8 IE8 will have XAML & SVG support If all the above fails then Google will buy Opera and Firefox and everyone
will download the browser and replace IE as everybody loves Google. Everyone decides not to download flash player cos know that all it does is
play annoying adverts. We will all be on high paid jobs because we are SVG experts :)
Richard 但愿如他所料
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