Comment by pbhjpbhj
9 hours ago
I think it may have been the other way (ie attractive to those who didn't like flash) - SVG was seen as a potential flash replacement?
9 hours ago
I think it may have been the other way (ie attractive to those who didn't like flash) - SVG was seen as a potential flash replacement?
> SVG was seen as a potential flash replacement?
Yes, that was a large part of the thrust back in the day. Even if it wasn't officially a goal of the SVG working group, there was a lack of an open standards-based alternative to what Flash was able to do, and the developers of the SVG standard saw that adding animation/tweening wouldn't take much given what browsers were already becoming capable of.