And the original worked pretty nicely in the most used operating system in the world (Windows), when it was released. But pointing this out just proves my original point that the openness of web standards isn't all that it is cracked up to be.
The code is pretty much open (even commented and well organized) and It can fairly easy be changed to SVG to support pretty much every modern browser. Open enough for me.
I do believe that Windoze stopped being most used operating system in the world (hint: android)