Just saw the new release of a recommendation from the W3C, as usual with W3C announcements, it is depressing.
It is so because we have had SVG way back in 2001, and have had vector graphics since almost the dawn of the computer era. We could have been building web pages out of pure SVG, and never would have had to worry about image resolution, JPG artifacts, or GIF patents. Even bandwidth would have been less of a concern.
Unfortunately, a certain large corporation which controls a major share of the web browser market didn’t want it that way. » Read more: If SVG Graphics Ruled the Web