The inventor of the World Wide Web or internet and currently the director of the standard-setting World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Tim Berners-Lee, say that there is a flaw that he sees in Internet Explorer in the way it handles graphics feature for web pages. And this is true not only with the recently released Internet Explorer 8 Beta but to older versions as well. Though Berners-Lee did not say it directly he said, "If you look around at browsers, you'll find that most of them support scalable vector graphics. I'll let you figure out which one has been slow in supporting SVG."
Web images that are encoded as SVG or scalable vector graphic can be magnified to fit the entire computer screen or resized to other proportions without getting pixilated. Meaning the image doesn’t become blocky and lose sharpness which is usually the case with images encoded in bitmaps.
Firefox, Safari and other browsers have built-in support for SVG while Microsoft’s Internet Explorer utilizes a plug-in, which needs to be downloaded, from Adobe Systems Inc. before it can show SVG objects. The problem here is that Adobe will be ending its support of the SVG plug-in on January 1.
Just a small selection of what users of Internet Explorer are missing out on: an SVG link collection