Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

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

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/svg/svg_inhtml.asp
>
> This page has examples of 3 ways to do it (you should see blue
> rectangles if SVG is rendering). All 3 examples work for me in Firefox
> 3.0.11, Seamonkey 1.1.16, Opera 9.64, Konqueror 4.2.3 and Safari 4
> (all on Windows). Internet Explorer 8, naturally, requires a plug-in
> to view SVG.
>
>

On Linux, my FF showed only the embed version, and that only after I
got "NoScript" to stop blocking it.
I wonder what's different on my system.  Oh, and svg was enabled all along.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD