"Mark Birbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >But as you know, the SVG spec defines a large number of possible values to >test for with DOMImplementation, not just "do you have SVG?". So ideally we >should be able to test for the language features we want, without using >hacks (sorry, I mean heuristic methods).
Right, so we agree that Mozilla SVG and SideWinder would be non-conformant and incorrect if they return true for http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/feature#SVG since they don't fulfill any of the sub ones. Do they fulfil any of the sub-ones, I believe not, because to claim that they do, they have to meet: ... the viewer can process and render successfully all of the language features ... Since they contain bugs and partial implementations, they should not claim any of the features. Of course this problem is common to the entire feature string concept across all languages, but that's just unfortunate that it ever became a specifcation. The HTML scripting world has shown how heuristic methods are extremely successful in dealing with different implementations, no-one uses the DOMImplementation interface, it's simply not acceptable due to the wild claims of some browsers (claiming support before there was only partial support) and the overly-prudent claims of others (claiming no-support when there was pretty good support) Cheers, Jim. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hlnqdd7/M=362131.6882499.7825260.1510227/D=groups/S=1706030389:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1123011190/A=2889191/R=0/SIG=10r90krvo/*http://www.thebeehive.org ">Get Bzzzy! (real tools to help you find a job) Welcome to the Sweet Life - brought to you by One Economy</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- 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/
