Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

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?

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD