Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the Web and Director of W3C, said in an interview, published on MSNBC that Microsoft Internet Explorer is behind all the other browsers since it has no SVG support (except via an unsupported plugin).

"If you look around at browsers, you'll find that most of them support scalable vector graphics," Berners-Lee said. "I'll let you figure out which one has been slow in supporting SVG."

The article goes on to explain for a general audience what SVG is, why it is important, and which other browsers support it (all of them, basically).

Those interested in specific details of SVG support - and how it has improved over time - should look at Jeff Schiller's SVG support table which includes versions of Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome, Konqueror and Batik - plus IE7 and IE8beta. Plugins (ASV, Renesis) are also graded.