[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: A few general questions about SVG
Thomas B. Passin wrote: > 3) Progressively disclose more detail for each stage of the zoom by > changing a css stylesheet. I don't know which, if any, implementations > let you manipulate the css using javascript, though. Implementations that support CSS will let you manipulate it through the CSS DOM, but for this case you would just manipulate the viewBox attribute using core DOM methods. > You do want to remember that different svg implementations use > non-compatible ways to specify the use of javascript and css (different > MIME types). This is correct in a way, but an overstatement. Mozilla has some political issues, but it's not a mature implementation of SVG by any measure anyway so in practice these aren't genuine nuisances (no one noticed this issue until two weeks ago AFAIK). Mozilla has most of the groundwork on which to build a great SVG platform, fully integrated into other Mozilla-supported technologies and if all you need is basic vector graphics and scripting it'll work mostly well. There are two factors currently preventing faster development of Mozilla's SVG component: insufficient communication between implementors and power users or the WG (which is being worked on) on one side, and on the other a small group of otherwise intelligent people with a little too much influence for their own good on a jihad to tell the world that the one and only Web content is tagsoup-plus-CSS discouraging contribution from helpful people. Always the optimist, I hope that when they grow tired of burning witches, planting bombs in crowded places, and their anything-that's-not-HTML/CSS-is-the-Axis-of-Evil-we-know-what-the-Web-is-and-you-don't crusade we'll get a chance to work on the few disagreements that lead to the absurd situation that we have today where people that supposedly belong to various "Open" credes proceed by exclusion, and those that publicly claim that "standards stifle innovation" embrace. EORAMBLE. Short story: don't count Mozilla as an SVG implementation just yet. > Overall, I have been happiest with Batik, but the Adobe plugin is > certainly convenient if you are willing to use IE. Let's be serious, no one on this list at this date is willing to use IE unless perhaps for one of those reality shows where you have to do discusting or scary things ;) I've been a happy user of ASV inside Safari and Firefox (on Windows, and it works on Linux as well) for quite a while. -- Robin Berjon
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