[gentoo-user] Re: SVG plugin

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

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>