Hi Andrew: Thanks for your report on the (sad) state of affairs for the svg viewers available to you.
On 2008-10-06 22:38+0100 Andrew Ross wrote: > N.B. The version of the gecko layout engine in firefox 3.0 implements > quite a bit more of the svg 1.1 spec. It may be that this is where the > observed differences between firefox versions lie. You confirm what Hazen found for firefox 3 on OS X. I agree it is possible that later firefox versions do better at implementing the svg 1.1 spec, but that would mean that there is a problem with the w3c validator that is telling us that our -dev svg results are within the 1.1 spec. I hope that w3c has gotten their validator right since so many people depend upon it! My own alternative hypothesis is firefox 3 has expanded their svg support like you say beyond what was provided by the firefox 2 version which renders our svg results so nicely for me. However, I assume that reworking must have introduced bugs in the part of the spec that they supported properly before and which is used by our -dev svg results. Interactions with the firefox developers via bug reports can help decide between the hypotheses. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
