Wanted: Firefox + SVG

MozJF · Post by **MozJF** » March 19th, 2004, 11:07 am

Well, I am doing my third try.

1st : Forget to unactive activeX
2nd : don't build with static version
3rd : trying dynamic build.

NB : trying to do a GDI+ version, so Win98 and younger only...

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » March 19th, 2004, 11:20 am

It's not that well suitable for pre-NT anyway, their OS is really too slow

I'm seeing "firefox trunk + svg-19-03-2004.exe"
on your site.... but only 2.4Mb (much smaller than a standard Fox) ?

MozJF · Post by **MozJF** » March 19th, 2004, 12:27 pm

Peter(6) wrote:It's not that well suitable for pre-NT anyway, their OS is really too slow

I'm seeing "firefox trunk + svg-19-03-2004.exe"
on your site.... but only 2.4Mb (much smaller than a standard Fox) ?

I'm uploading it. Please wait. It must be a 5.11 Mb size file

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » March 19th, 2004, 12:32 pm

loading....
Now I gotte figure out how to go from FB to FF w/o loosing anything ;-)

the exe is a zip, or installer ?

MozJF · Post by **MozJF** » March 19th, 2004, 12:49 pm

a 7zip file.

loadbang · Post by **loadbang** » March 19th, 2004, 12:51 pm

I was at an Adobe conference the other month and they were reffering to SVG as "our technology", "Adobe have been developing" etc.

I have been wanting to use SVG for ages. If Mozilla can implement it into FireFox then I will create special CSS for my web sites to use SVG. Hurry up!

sasquatch · Post by **sasquatch** » March 19th, 2004, 1:02 pm

howesey wrote:I was at an Adobe conference the other month and they were reffering to SVG as "our technology", "Adobe have been developing" etc.

I have been wanting to use SVG for ages. If Mozilla can implement it into FireFox then I will create special CSS for my web sites to use SVG. Hurry up!

I'd rather use something more standard, thanks.

chaosite · Post by **chaosite** » March 19th, 2004, 1:04 pm

sasquatch wrote:
howesey wrote:I was at an Adobe conference the other month and they were reffering to SVG as "our technology", "Adobe have been developing" etc.

I have been wanting to use SVG for ages. If Mozilla can implement it into FireFox then I will create special CSS for my web sites to use SVG. Hurry up!

I'd rather use something more standard, thanks.

You should look at the W3C site, than.

It is a standard.

sasquatch · Post by **sasquatch** » March 19th, 2004, 1:12 pm

By standard, I meant "in standard use and practice".

If no other sites or browsers support it, is that a standard? No way.

chaosite · Post by **chaosite** » March 19th, 2004, 1:22 pm

Well, it IS a standard, so browsers should in theory support it. Thats one of the reason many people like Mozilla, you know. They keep to the standard.

Anyway, vector graphics are pretty cool, and using XML to back it up sounds great.

If I needed something like that, I would use it, and give my users instructions for getting it, or an alternate.

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » March 19th, 2004, 1:42 pm

howesey wrote:I was at an Adobe conference the other month and they were reffering to SVG as "our technology", "Adobe have been developing" etc.
I have been wanting to use SVG for ages. If Mozilla can implement it into FireFox then I will create special CSS for my web sites to use SVG. Hurry up!

the build works fine now, so use the svg !

MozJF · Post by **MozJF** » March 19th, 2004, 3:00 pm

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040319 Firefox/0.8.0-svg-GDI(MozJF)

Oh ? ;o)

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » March 19th, 2004, 3:10 pm

MozJF wrote:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040319 Firefox/0.8.0-svg-GDI(MozJF)

Oh ? ;o)

30% faster than old Firebird 0.8.0-svg-gdi :-)

Lohvarn · Post by **Lohvarn** » March 19th, 2004, 3:12 pm

sasquatch wrote:By standard, I meant "in standard use and practice".

If no other sites or browsers support it, is that a standard? No way.

By that same logic I could say that there is no reason for me to write a web site based on W3C standards, since 90+% of all browsers out there are IE. I should use ActiveX, Microsoft JScript, and co.

Peter(6) · Post by **Peter(6)** » March 19th, 2004, 3:15 pm

Lohvarn wrote:By that same logic I could say that there is no reason for me to write a web site based on W3C standards, since 90+% of all browsers out there are IE. I should use ActiveX, Microsoft JScript, and co.

90% in Bill's dreams, down to ~82% now and dropping.
At the same time Moz browsers are at almost 10% (1 year ago just 4%)