Svg

Anybody done much with SVG? It's a vector format that has applications similar (in the right hands) to Flash, but it's XML-based (you can read an SVG file and vaguely understand it) and so is more portable. I'm thinking about trying to adopt the standard as part of an ecommerce app I'm building right now wherein users can customize a product. If I use SVG, I can take their customization, display it onscreen, store it, and output it as PDF in an invoice, etc. I just haven't actually started seriously looking at what's involved yet and may wind up not having the time to ramp up. Anybody else used SVG or have any thoughts? Check out http://www.adobe.com/svg/main.html if you're interested.

I had a very brief play with SMIL when working @ a company that was heavilly into new mobile technologies (2.5/3g). Apparently the newer Nokias support it natively, as does IE from memory.

SVGs open in IE but by using an Adobe plugin that (IIRC) is installed when you install Acrobat.