SPM 1.4 was based around an XML as the backend and for the frontend HTML and from memory SVG. In SPM 2.x you can publish diagrams in SVG as well.
The cool thing with SVG is that the images are all created based on txt files with location and colour information.
Check this one out:
http://www.degrafa.org/source/Car/Car.html
Then right click and look at the source, nothing but txt cool!
Pity SVG is not more widely adopted, but then with the advent of flash and flex and there navigation abilities, I suppose it is not surprising.
Silverlight needs a mention as well. A lot of Silverlight is also done in text (XAML) files but they are compiled before they reach the client (a good thing, IMO).
Flex is really not an SVG replacement and SVG is dead from everything I have seen despite doing some cool stuff.
SAS apparently demo’d a Flash front-end today in Steamboat Springs. I haven’t seen it yet. Perhaps by SGF.
Hi Alan
Yes forgot Silverlight, although we havent seen a lot of it over here in NZ.
We are using flex to produce all our graphs, and just beta with a new OEM graphing engine. I looked at using SVG for graphing and it does some cool things but as you said it is looking dead.
SAS did a powerpoint/screencast demo of the new flex based dashboards they are working on, screensot is here:
Slide # 22
Looked pretty cool.