Viewing Xara files on Internet

[houseofman]

Hi there,
Xara has a plug-in for viewing WEB files on the internet but it has never been updated. I noticed the Xara website still has the plug-in for download but states that it won't work in IE 5.5 or greater.
Will there/or is there an alternative means of viewing vector files on the web?
Thanks for your input.
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Phillip

[houseofman]

Hi there,
Xara has a plug-in for viewing WEB files on the internet but it has never been updated. I noticed the Xara website still has the plug-in for download but states that it won't work in IE 5.5 or greater.
Will there/or is there an alternative means of viewing vector files on the web?
Thanks for your input.
--
Phillip

[raynerj]

hi Phillip,

I think xara is letting this die a slow death, with flash taking the lead. I wonder what Charles and crew feel about this.

[houseofman]

Hi John,
That's probably true what you say. I was just curious.

Phillip

[Charles Moir]

Flash won that war - industry standard vector format for the web, albeit rather limited in the richness of graphics it can do. But great for animation of course. SVG is a more powerful way of displaying vector graphics on the web and we will be supporting SVG in future versions of Xara X.

We may resurrect a 'compact renderer' as we called the old .web file format browser plug-in, once we have the new Xara X XML file format.

[houseofman]

Thank you Charles,
I look forward to the new and improved (SVG/XML) formats.
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Phillip

[raynerj]

"Flash won that war" - Charles

Thank You, also Charles. I was second guessing you there.

Say not the war, but the battle for graphic dominance. And xara is the tool that can win!

[Egg Bramhill]

Undoubtably Flash is King when it comes to viewing Vector files on the internet, but I'd hate to have to draw anything in Flash http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/mad.gif

XaraX's .swf export is excellent, the limitations only being the restrictions of Flash, not XaraX. You can even create a .swf file directly from XaraX and place it in a html page without even having Flash or Swish etc.

Egg