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On Jun 15, 2006, at 11:55, Eric van der Vlist wrote:
> Am I missing something or is cross-browser SVG interoperability
> still a
> dream?
As usual with interop issues, you can figure out how to make it work
by targeting the least advanced/most buggy implementation, in this
case Firefox.
> For the upcoming book on Web 2.0 (http://web2.0thebook.org/) that I am
> writing with a bunch of very smart people, I have done some a
> couple of
> simple tests which seem to indicate that the Adobe SVG plugin is still
> far away and that native support in Web browser often means silent
> failures when a feature is not supported (which can arguably be
> considered as worse than suggesting to install a plugin like we do
> when
> there is no support at all).
The Adobe plugin is indeed far away, but far away *behind*. Its
numbers have apparently started decreasing rather regularly. It's a
dead product anyway.
In general, SVG interoperability got worse before it started going
better, due to the fact that three major browsers entered the fray of
implementation. That's a good thing of course, but it causes some
amount of chaos when it begins. If other browsers manage to catch up
as fast as Opera seems to do (going from very fragmented small pieces
of support in v8.5 to almost everything in v9) it might not take long
for greater interop to show. In the meantime, just stick to what
Firefox can do. It's not much, but it's a useful start. And you can
make up for its lack of animation support by using the SmilScript
library.
--
Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
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