SVG support

Andy Burns · Post by **Andy Burns** » January 5th, 2005, 5:42 pm

pljones wrote:Ooh! Thanks for mentioning sodipodi

Inkscape is a (better IMHO) fork of sodipodi

ehume · Post by **ehume** » January 5th, 2005, 6:29 pm

Whoowee!

Inkscape is amazing. I'm much more comfortable with the interface, and the controls are easier to understand. However, the rendering is slower. I see a place for both SVG viewer/editors.

pljones · Post by **pljones** » January 7th, 2005, 3:24 am

This gets opened okay: http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/arcs1/arcs1.svg
This doesn't: http://www.inkscape.org/doc/examples/tux.svg

In fact, none of the Inkscape examples seem to get recognised by Firefox... Anyone any ideas why?

ehume · Post by **ehume** » January 7th, 2005, 6:03 pm

I see both images just fine.

I have some images first created with sodipodi but then edited with Inkscape and saved as Inkscape svg files. Those show up fine on SVG-enabled FF.

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » January 7th, 2005, 6:05 pm

WFN, but they are written for the adobe plugin

pljones · Post by **pljones** » January 9th, 2005, 2:44 pm

ehume wrote:I see both images just fine.

I have some images first created with sodipodi but then edited with Inkscape and saved as Inkscape svg files. Those show up fine on SVG-enabled FF.

I'm running

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050107 Firefox/1.0+ (MOOX M2)

(no adobe plugin) and it's still like it was in my message above: the Croczilla images render, the Inkscape ones don't.

John_Mall · Post by **John_Mall** » January 10th, 2005, 4:36 am

Why not FireFox has native support for SVG ?

I think this will a request for FireFox 1.1

ansorg · Post by **ansorg** » January 10th, 2005, 8:52 am

pljones wrote: the Croczilla images render, the Inkscape ones don't.

look in your options, Helper applications
remove the entry for image/svg-xml that points to MSIE

try again

[EDIT]
argh, still does not work with the links from above.

Although, I downloaded both SVG files and the changed option enabled me to open both files in Mozilla.

No idea why it does not work with the linked URLs

pljones · Post by **pljones** » January 10th, 2005, 12:13 pm

@John_Mall: Firefox has native SVG support, just disabled. It will be enabled in 1.1(?), I believe (at least, I'm sure I read that somewhere). MOOX Firefox CE has native SVG support enabled already, which is what I'm using.

@ansorg: Firefox doesn't have "Options->Helper Applications"... and as you found, it wouldn't help. The SVG rendered doesn't like those Inkscape files. Maybe I'll post a bug against SVG... (Maybe they'll drop the xmlns=... requirement...)

Foxtrot · Post by **Foxtrot** » January 11th, 2005, 8:54 am

It looks like the SVG-enabled official builds are only updated for Linux ...
Am I wrong?