Article:		SVG: A Sure Bet
Subject:		Missing the point
Date:		2003-07-22 17:42:14
From:		Paul Prescod
Response to: Missing the point
1) At line 14973: equality (==) mistyped as assignment (=) Actually this is legal ECMAscript. At line 5370, col 167: incomplete path element There is no path element there. There is some literal character data using the ampersand greater-than character but no XML parser should treat that as an element and no SVG viewer should either. Whichever viewer you were using that does this is making a mistake. For now, the Adobe implementation is quite a bit ahead of the others in implementing advanced features of the spec.

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• Missing the point
  2003-07-22 20:13:15 x emplify
  
  Apologies for the mistakes in my analysis. In the Mozilla browser status bar, the Corel Viewer suggested that the = instead of == maybe a mistake. Doing view SVG source from the Corel Viewer in Mozilla gave me the XML with the <path replaced by the
  Still, there is a null pointer exception in the Batik Squiggle viewer that is preventing the file from being viewed. Not sure if this is a spec violation on the part of the file, or a lack of something implemented in Batik.

  
  Regardless I would still suggest that SVG developers use a subset of the SVG specification that can be viewed in all major SVG viewers. I would also like generation tools that have an option to produce cross-viewer compatible SVG.

  
  For over a year I have been using Mozilla because it beats IE on features hands down. Also using Mozilla means I can use the same browser on both Windows at work and my Linux desktop at home. Until I can view the majority of SVG files on the Web in the latest release of Mozilla, SVG is a dead Web format for me. I would imagine that there are many Linux users that feel the same way.

  
  I hope that the newly formed Mozilla Foundation places more emphasis on the development of native support for SVG in the near future.
  
  

  • Missing the point
    2003-07-28 20:48:59 Stuart Begg
    
    FYI: I am able to view the referenced SVG presentations using Mozilla 1.4 on Mac OS X 10.2.6, with the Adobe SVG Plug-in (v3.0). I have not tried any of the other plug-ins you mention.