Each IE and Firefox are faster at different DHTML tasks. Firefox is an order of magnitude faster for DOM element creation, for example.
http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/innerhtml.html |
*If Internet Explorer still ships with VML, IEs proprietary vector markup language, there may be the possibility of creating a cross-browser vector graphics wrapper which outputs either SVG (for Firefox) or VML (for IE).
It would be simpler to use the Adobe plug-in for IE and to use the native SVG support in Firefox 1.1, Opera 8, etc. And of course many mobile phones have SVG support nowadays. |
In some projects, making people install a plug-in (especially if it's as large as the Adobe SVG Viewer) is not an option.
On a side-note, I wonder if SVG is directly opposing Canvas, and if so, why Firefox doesn't go just for SVG. |
That's because SVG is vector graphics and Canvas is bitmap graphics. They're two different things. |
OK, thanks Ian. I was wondering about that. |
