Article:		SVG: A Sure Bet
Subject:		Mozilla "support" for SVG (State the current situation not just the possible future...)
Date:		2003-07-18 08:42:12
From:		Damian Cugley
Response to: State the current situation not just the possible future...
Mozilla has, sadly, with the best possible intentions, put SVG support back several years. First, changes to the plug-in API made Mozilla incompatible with Adobe's SVG viewer 3. Second, the built-in SVG support does not handle a large subset of SVG, is missing many features. It does not help that the Mozilla plan for showing SVG in an HTML document is that the SVG code be mixed in with the HTML document, as opposed to living in a separate resource linked to with an 'object' or 'img' element. There is no way to write a document that will work with both these approaches. Mozilla is my regular web browser, but when I want to run SVG demos, I have to fire up Internet Explorer to do it. Sad.

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  2003-07-19 11:27:00 Paul Prescod