On Fri, May 4, 2007 10:30 am, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2007 10:01, you wrote: >> Andrew Errington wrote: > <snip> > >> > The only solution is to complain to MetroInfo, and keep doing so until >> > it is fixed. Oh, and you could complain to The Press, so that they >> can >> > investigate the shocking waste of public money. >> >> Wait a cotton-picking minute. >> >> SVG is an open standard. What are you suggesting? That Metro should use >> a proprietary based Flash thing? > > No. I am not suggesting that. I am suggesting that, since it's broken, > it > needs to be fixed. > > I agree that since SVG is an open standard it is not necessarily a bad > choice, but yes, relying on Adobe (who, now they have bought Macromedia > seem to want to kill SVG and promote Flash, or kill both and promote some > other alternative) is clearly no longer viable. > > As I said, Firefox now supports SVG natively, and I managed to get it to > render the Christchurch map but without any real-time or interactive > features. Perhaps only a little work is required to make it fully > functional, but unless someone complains and demands action then CCC or > ECan (whoever funds MetroInfo) will assume all is well and they have > received value for money from the supplier. > > Andrew
By the way it works fine in IE6 on win2k after installing the Adobe SVG viewer. I didn't even have to reboot, or even close down IE6. I mention this because, on windows, that is mighty impressive :-) -- Nick Rout
