SVG. The way forward or a blind alley?

[Egg Bramhill]

I've been hearing of the virtues of svg for at least four years now and to date it really doesn't appear to have made the impact of the early hype.

I've no axe to grind either way, but I've yet to see a breakthrough in this file types usage. I've only come across one web site that used an svg file as an integral part of the site. All the other svg files I have encountered have been to demonstrate svg's capabilities, but not as an integral part of a standard web site.

It would appear to me that the main thrust for using svg at present is within vector file exchange, via import / export filters.

Is this as good as it gets?