With the recent acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe, interesting tech in svg
is no doubt going to be rolled into a future version of flash. If there's an
easy fix, it be nice to have it, just saying it's something to keep in mind

> At 9:31 AM -0500 on 3/27/06, paulc wrote:
> 
>> SVG graphics seem to work. But in Camino, when I go to the test page
>> (http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/svgtest.html), it downloads
>> a file, launches Illustrator and spits a bunch of error messages at
>> me.
>> 
>> I make a few more tests... it functions just fine in safari and IE,
>> but not in Camino or Firefox. This is unfortunate as the foundation
>> technology seems very interesting.
>> 
>> Anyone have any ideas what's ging on here?
> 
> Adobe's site is very broken: they're serving the SVG file as
> text/plain instead of image/svg+xml, for starters, and in an embed
> tag without a proper type element.  Both are no-nos and both will
> cause proper implementations of SVG to "fail".
> 
> See <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/faq.html#source> and
> <http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/faq.html#choose-a-program> for
> more info.
> 
>  From what I've heard/read, Adobe's test suite is not to be
> trusted...it's more of a test suite for "did you install our plugin?"
> rather than "adherence to web and SVG standards and specs".  Try
> those at Hixie's site and the ones he links to
> <http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/svg/> for more accurate results ;)
> 
> And use Camino 1.0 or higher, of course...versions before 1.0 did not
> support SVG.
> 
> Smokey


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