On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:05:47 +0100, ddailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aaron Gray wrote: > >> This brings up the issue of embed .v. object .v. frames .v. iframes I >> would appreciate some pointers and advice here. > > I'll go ahead and make a stab at an answer. If I misstate or neglect > anything, I'll hope others will jump in and correct me. ... > <object> works quite nicely and simply in FF and Opera, though. I like <object> more than <embed> since it has more predictible results. You are less likely to run into trouble if you use <object> in FF/Opera, with the drawback that it might not work in IE/ASV. ... > a) <image src="doc.svg"> is likely not ever to support scripting, even > once individual browsers come to support that file type. It seems likely that scripting will be disabled for <html:img> if it supports svg in the future yes. > b) the inline approach to SVG has been experimented with a good deal and > is likely to become much more convenient in future browsers (right now > IE seems to be the obstacle). The link I mentioned earlier > http://wiki.svg.org/Inline_SVG seems as consise and accurate as on this > subject as any, though I seem to recall that Andreas Neumann had some > pretty extensive stuff on this at his wonderful > http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/ site -- I can't seem to locate > it quickly though. I agree it's convinient, let's hope to see more content like that in the future. > c) there is a <foreignObject> tag in SVG1.1 (see > http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/extend.html#ForeignObjectElement) . It appears > to have the purpose of allowing the embedding of XHTML (and other XML > content) directly into SVG, I suppose somewhat like Microsoft XML data > islands in HTML. I haven't seen any working demos of it, and the example > code in the W3C specs is something I've not been able to make work in > any browser (I'm hoping somebody can set me straight here.) I recently tried a FF3.0 nightly that had some support for foreignObject. Opera 9 has some support, but it's limited to external content (via xlink:href) at the moment. Here's an example that works in Opera 9: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; id="svg-root" width="800" height="600"> <foreignObject id="foo" width="800" height="600" xlink:href="http://www.opera.com/"/> <defs> <linearGradient id="gradient"> <stop stop-color="yellow" offset="0"/> <stop stop-color="red" offset="1"/> </linearGradient> </defs> <text fill="url(#gradient)" fill-opacity="0.5" transform="rotate(-45 700 100)" font-size="100" pointer-events="none" font-family="sans-serif">SVG on top</text> </svg> And here's an example that works in FF3.0: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; id="svg-root" width="800" height="600"> <foreignObject width="800" height="600"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <body bgcolor="beige" style="font-size:48px"> <p>This is XHTML</p> <p>Click to <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/";>visit Mozilla.org</a></p> <p>This is XHTML</p> <p>This is XHTML</p> <p>This is XHTML</p> </body> </html> </foreignObject> <defs> <linearGradient id="gradient"> <stop stop-color="yellow" offset="0"/> <stop stop-color="red" offset="1"/> </linearGradient> </defs> <text fill="url(#gradient)" fill-opacity="0.5" transform="rotate(-45 700 100)" font-size="100" pointer-events="none" font-family="sans-serif">SVG on top</text> </svg> I hope the foreignObject support in all browsers improves so that it becomes possible to use in the future. Cheers /Erik -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ----- 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
