I have a feeling that a significant legacy mistake is going to keep SVG from wide use for years after it's ready.
No, I don't mean IE. I mean Photoshop. When every problem looks like a stack of raster layers... well, among other things, vector graphics aren't going to easily come out of that.
OTOH: maybe SVG will help pull us out of the unfortunate accident of history that's meant that Photoshop is used for web layout, but I'd bet we'll see convoluted export procedures before we say a wholesale shift to vector tools....at least, that's the historical pattern.
No, I don't mean IE. I mean Photoshop. When every problem looks like a stack of raster layers... well, among other things, vector graphics aren't going to easily come out of that.
OTOH: maybe SVG will help pull us out of the unfortunate accident of history that's meant that Photoshop is used for web layout, but I'd bet we'll see convoluted export procedures before we say a wholesale shift to vector tools....at least, that's the historical pattern.