Fascinerend verhaal, en laat nog eens zien hoezeer partijen vaak technologieën alleen maar gebruiken als het ze uitkomt en om politieke redenen, vaak niet omdat het goed is voor de gebruiker.
Dit stukje trok bijvoorbeeld mijn aandacht:
"When Internet Explorer 9 previewed, the SVG demos presented (such as the beautiful cartography work of Carto.net) were literally vintage pieces, circa 2001 and 2002. Generally speaking, these ran just fine on the iPad when it came out (literally 2001 code unchanged).
One sad part of Microsoft having embraced SVG was that they refused to implement SMIL, a specification for animation that had been quite popular among early SVG developers. Even today, MS seems to be winning the battle to kill SMIL, as Google is now planning to follow suit."