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On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:31 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
>>> On 06/15/2009 03:30 PM, Mick wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2009/6/15 Florian Philipp<lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Mick schrieb:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Trying to view a web page I produced some yonks ago, which at that the
>>>>>> time would utilise the Adobe SVG plugin to render a gantt chart.  The
>>>>>> header of the file went like this:
>>>>>> =============================================
>>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
>>>>>> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20000303 Stylable//EN"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/03/WD-SVG-20000303/DTD/svg-20000303-stylable.dtd">
>>>>>> <svg xml:space="preserve" width="10in" height="8in"
>>>>>> style="font-family:'Arial';font-size:8">
>>>>>> =============================================
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Adobe seem to have abandoned further development.  Any idea what I can
>>>>>> use to render such a graphic (image/svg+xml) in a browser?
>>>>>
>>>>> Firefox supports svg out of the box, now. Maybe you need the svg
>>>>> USE-flag for x11-libs/cairo.
>>>>
>>>> Hmm, mozilla-firefox does not have an svg flag.  Anyway, I have svg in
>>>> my /etc/make.conf and also have cairo installed:
>>>>
>>>> [I] x11-libs/cairo
>>>>
>>>>      Installed versions:  1.8.6-r1!t(18:54:43 03/17/09)(X glitz opengl
>>>> svg -cleartype -debug -directfb -doc -xcb)
>>>>
>>>> It's not just FF, but also Opera and Konqueror cannot render it either
>>>> and ask to download a plugin.
>>>
>>> The code in your webpage is probably wrong.  You should just use a normal
>>> HTML header instead of this weird "<!DOCTYPE svg" thingy you're using now.
>>>  Embed SVG images inside the page with a PNG fallback like this:
>>>
>>> <object data="URL_TO_YOUR.svg" type="image/svg+xml" height="PIXELS"
>>> width="PIXELS">
>>>    <img src="URL_TO_YOUR.png" height="PIXELS" width="PIXELS">
>>> </object>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I tried that Adobe site in FF on gentoo and ubuntu with the same
>> non-result.  On Vista, I tried FF, Opera, Safari and IE 8, with varied
>> forms of failure.  Interestingly, Opera at least offered to start
>> inkscape to view the image, which succeeded.  The text on that image
>> suggested it's specific to an adobe plugin -- which it plugs of
>> course.
>>
>> Does somebody have a web page with SVGs that normal browsers with
>> non-proprietary plugins/viewers _can_ view?
>
> I looked a little further.  I thought it interesting that Safari could
> also not view the Adobe SVG thingy.  Moreover,
> http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/ shows they've dropped support
> for their viewer, and the most recent blurb promoting SVG relates to
> Illustrator CS2, when CS4 is the current version.  I have CS4, but
> haven't learned to use it yet.
>
> Is there a future in SVG?

Also, in Firefox make sure SVG is enabled. Type "about:config" in the
URL bar and look for the "svg.enabled" option. Set it to "true" if it
is not already.