My limited experience so far with Firefoxs SVG implementation leads me to believe that it is so buggy and incomplete that it is useless. Id rather try to force it to use the Adobe plugin. Mozilla seems totally incapable of running the Adobe plugin, and Opera runs it but with lots of bugs.
Geoffrey J. Swenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Thoen Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 7:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [svg-developers] Re: Coordinate systems in SVG Mapping / GIS 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" ---- SPONSORED LINKS Xml <http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=ms&k=Xml+format&w1=Xml+format&w2=Svg&w3=Data &c=3&s=35&.sig=u8RdjEjLCbPTzkUjsFG_JA> format Svg <http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=ms&k=Svg&w1=Xml+format&w2=Svg&w3=Data&c=3&s= 35&.sig=BrpyGiBcZ6vcQXDJ7ktaiw> Data <http://groups.yahoo.com/gads?t=ms&k=Data&w1=Xml+format&w2=Svg&w3=Data&c=3&s =35&.sig=CrK_fWaLZ-AZKa5FK8rTGA> _____ YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS * Visit your group "svg-developers <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers> " on the web. * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> Service. _____ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ----- 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/
