Adobe officially announced the discontinuation of the Adobe SVG Viewer on January 1, 2009. They ceased all updates and distribution. By this time, the vast majority of the browser market (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera) supported SVG natively.
Graphics could be magnified without losing detail, making them ideal for maps and technical diagrams. adobe svg plugin
While Flash dominated animation and multimedia, Adobe SVG Viewer found a niche in data visualization, cartography (interactive maps), and technical diagramming where the open XML standard was preferred for data integration. Adobe officially announced the discontinuation of the Adobe
To invoke the plugin, developers had to use non-standard HTML tags. The embed tag was commonly used for Netscape browsers, while the object tag was used for Internet Explorer. This created a fragmented development environment where browser sniffing was often required to display the graphic correctly. Graphics could be magnified without losing detail, making