Chase Phillips reports that nightly builds of Mozilla Firefox now include support for Scalable Vector Graphics on Windows and Mac OS X (Linux builds with SVG are coming soon). The feature is currently disabled by default; to turn it on, go to about:config and set svg.enabled to true. Once you’ve got it working, check out the croczilla.com SVG samples and have a quick game of SVG Tetris. If all goes well, SVG will be enabled by default in time for Firefox 1.1. The Mozilla SVG Project pages have more details about SVG support in Gecko.

Have to wonder though how Adobe’s acquisition of Macromedia will effect their support behind SVG. Of course having Firefox and Opera support it does nothing if IE isn’t behind it, so hopefully IE 10 adds support for SVG and we can begin to see really cool graphic voodoo on the web without Flash. Although Flash is cool when used properly.

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