Article:		SVG: A Sure Bet
Subject:		Missing the point
Date:		2003-07-22 20:13:15
From:		x emplify
Response to: Missing the point
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.

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• Missing the point
  2003-07-28 20:48:59 Stuart Begg [Reply]
  
  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.