Thanks everyone for setting me straight on coordinate systems! Andreas' and André's comments about the FireFox 1.5 sensitivity to coordinate range limits are a bit disturbing. I spent a good hour or two debugging a scripted SVG file that had a related issue. I had build a little test map that tracked coordinates into a window that was in geographic coordinates (both the map and the tracking window were using the same viewBox.) It worked fine in ASV but in FF, I found that text embedded in tspan tags vanishes when you use size attributes less than one. I didn't pursue it in detail, but it seemed like the problem was related to not enough range across the map relative to the font sizes. Once I took the tracking window out of geographic space and into a pixel-based integer space, everything was fine.
I've been told by one ex-SVG developer that "SVG is dying, and that's why I don't use it anymore," so I was hoping that since the mozilla team is building it into the new Firefox that maybe this would revitalize it. However, since I'm just learning about ecma/java scripting, running into bugs like these is very frustrating since I don't know if it's my buggy script or mozilla's buggy or unfinished SVG code causing the problem! BTW Andreas, your scripting examples in "Navigation Tools for SVG Maps" at http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/navigationTools/ are fantastic! They're still way over my head, but I can get them to work even though I don't yet understand what's going on. It proves to me that with the addition of some sophisticated scripting, SVG really can be a useful tool and not just a "map toy." - Bill Thoen ----- 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/
