publish.com has an article that states the upcoming versions of Opera (8) and FireFox (1.1) will include native SVG support.
Mac OS X support for SVG has been pretty non-existant. the Adobe SVG browser plug-in has been available for a while now, but that's a sub-optimal (not to mention slow as hell) way to implement SVG. as for normal viewing or authoring, unless you had Illustrator or some other commercial package, you're pretty much out of luck (as far as i know, sodipodi and inkscape can open and edit svg, but not convert them).
today, i found a message on an apple dev list from a guy who as built a native SVG viewer application for OS X based on ksvg, JavaScriptCore and WebCore. this is a huge step in the right direction, as it uses existing technologies to create a native solution for displaying SVG. however, i really hope apple has a quartz-backed SVG rendering project in the wings. SVG tiny should be incorporated and treated like any other nsimage type so that you can open it up in preview, and convert it to pdf, or png, or tiff, etc.
microsoft is planning a non-standard SVG implementation in longhorn which will be incompatible with the standard SVG specification (sound familiar?), and i certainly hope the work of Opera, Mozilla.org, and hopefully Apple keeps this further degradation of the web from happening.
Mac OS X support for SVG has been pretty non-existant. the Adobe SVG browser plug-in has been available for a while now, but that's a sub-optimal (not to mention slow as hell) way to implement SVG. as for normal viewing or authoring, unless you had Illustrator or some other commercial package, you're pretty much out of luck (as far as i know, sodipodi and inkscape can open and edit svg, but not convert them).
today, i found a message on an apple dev list from a guy who as built a native SVG viewer application for OS X based on ksvg, JavaScriptCore and WebCore. this is a huge step in the right direction, as it uses existing technologies to create a native solution for displaying SVG. however, i really hope apple has a quartz-backed SVG rendering project in the wings. SVG tiny should be incorporated and treated like any other nsimage type so that you can open it up in preview, and convert it to pdf, or png, or tiff, etc.
microsoft is planning a non-standard SVG implementation in longhorn which will be incompatible with the standard SVG specification (sound familiar?), and i certainly hope the work of Opera, Mozilla.org, and hopefully Apple keeps this further degradation of the web from happening.