Microsoft's Patrick Dengler, a senior program manager on the Internet Explorer team, revealed this week that Microsoft is joining the W3C's Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) working group. In a post on the official IE blog, Dengler says that Microsoft hopes to collaborate on future versions of the SVG standard.
This move reflects Microsoft's growing involvement in the industry-wide effort to advance open Web standards. Internet Explorer has a notoriously bad track record on standards compliance and interoperability, but Microsoft is gradually remedying these issues and has been attempting to engage more productively with the standards community. The company took a big step last year when it began participating in the HTML 5 editing process and expressed support for HTML 5 audio and video elements. Joining the SVG working group is another big step forward—one that will likely be welcomed by Web developers.
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