On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:29:45PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > 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.
Some testing with hand-editing the source revealed (not surprisingly) that it is the text-anchor tag that is not being properly used. Try changing "middle" to "start" or "end" and you get some odd results - it looks like the length of the text string used to calculate the position is far too long. The fact that all editors have a similar bug I find disturbing. I wonder if it is related to the transformation matrices? One option would be to do the alignment by hand to attempt to circumvent this issue. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
