higorion wrote: > hi, > > on my page, before entering svg content, i am checking for the > installation status of the adobe svg plugin. > > for internet explorer i am using a litte vb-script to > instantiate "Adobe.SVGCtl". for firefox, netscape and opera i am > reading from the plugins array to find the information i need. > > if no proper viewer is found, the user is shown a warning and is > optionally redirected to a page containing detailed installation > info. > > there's only one problem left to complete my goal: plugin detection > an a macintosh computer. > > can somebody tell me how to find out whether adobe svg viewer is > installed on a macintosh client? > > i would appreciate your answers very much! > > best regars, > > hannes
Hi Hannes i dont think its a good idea to test for the adobe plug in, there are a lot of other implemetations out there, why would you want to exclude them from accessing your SVGs ? on linux many people use KSVG (there are rumores that it will be ported to OSX), mozilla/firefox will have native SVG support in 1.1, and dont forget the upcomming Renesis viewer, which should , if its only half as good as promised, be widely distributed soon. you dont want to exclude these people, or people using any other future viewer. i would suggest using an extra <object type="image/svg+xml" data="viewerOK.svg" width="100px" height="100px"> if you can read this,you will need an svg viewer <a>click here</a> to bla... </object> note ! that you can not safely assume that scripting works in <object> context. viewerOK.svg should just be a symbol indicating that an SVG viewer was detected. hth Holger ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
