[magicseth]

Ironically, Adobe used to be the biggest supporter of SVG... before they purchased Flash. Their svg renderer was by far the best in the field at the time, and supported lots of wonderful features, including great ECMAscript (Javascript), had the ability to build AJAX-like interactions using remote requests, and was fundamentally awesome.

It never made it out of beta and got killed when Flash became Adobe's new sweetheart. Very sad.

[eitland]

I once made a GPS navigation system using IE 6 (!) in fullscreen, the Adobe flash plugin (for SVG and ECMAScript), SVG files on local disk and a small program that got the GPS coordinates from the receiver and added them to a file in the same directory. This was a few years ago before mobile internet became cheap enough for mainstream use.