Hi, there are a number of different questions sort of bound up with the issues of cross-browser compatibility depending upon whether:
1. it is standalone svg (.svg) 2. it is embedded in HTML using <embed>, <iframe>, <object> or <image> 3. it is inlined in HTML (as in the two links you provided) In any case the advice on syntactic considerations provided by Jonathan Watt at http://jwatt.org/svg/authoring/ is recommended reading. In case 1. other than making sure the syntax is properly cross-browser (there were some idiosyncracies with the Adobe plugin that never made their way into the standards), the only issue that really remains, I think, is whether certain features (like filters or SMIL on a broad level or like feDisplacemnent and feFlood at a more focused level) are supported in a certain browser. Jeff Schiller maintains a nice comparison for this at http://www.codedread.com/svg-support.php . 2. There are some real idiosyncracies here: (I'm working from memory here, but ) for the Adobe plugin 3.03, a security problem arose using script in conjunction with <object> that made them turn off support for that. Hence it is simplest to just use <embed>. Some have claimed success scripting back and forth between HTML DOM and SVG DOM using <iframe> but my experiments a couple of years ago were not pleasant (http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/ObjectTest.htm ) . I recently discovered that someone had found a workaround for the Adobe <object> problem, involving <param> -- see for example : here http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/objectSVG.html . If it avoids the security issue that Adobe encountered, I don't know if it exposes the same risk that caused them to disable scripting through <object>. Does anybody know about that? 3. I have in the past considered cross-browser inlining to be so hideously gnarly that I have simply avoided it in favor of <embed>. The problem is, as I understand it (only partially), that IE does not act like an XHTML viewer. Hence the standard inlining that one would do in Safari, Opera, or FF, just doesn't work in IE. Check Jeff Schiller's advice at http://blog.codedread.com/archives/2006/01/13/inlaying-svg-with-html/ for some other suggestions, since it looks like he's researched the problem pretty carefully. Another note is that the Adobe viewer for svg is not being maintained (actively worked on by Adobe) and that the Renesis plugin provides now, almost as much support as (for example) Safari as per Jeff's chart. I don't know how well it handles inlining (which seems to be a feature of IE rather than the ASV plugin) or whether it makes the support for scripting with <object> easier, but if you're in a position to control your audience's browser, then consider Opera (or one of the others), and if you're somehow locked into with IE, and you don't yet need filters or smil, then it might be time to migrate to Renesis. I realize that most of this information is probably not what you were asking about, but the question of how to make SVG work across browsers fragments into sub-questions a good deal depending on how one wishes to do it. Also take a look at http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/SVGAnimations.htm in which there are several hundred diverse examples most of which are working in at least Opera and IE/ASV meaning that as Safari and FF phase in support for filters and animation -- these examples usually end up working in those browsers as well. Some more modern examples (often with improved coding practices) can be found from there at http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/newstuff/Newlist.htm . cheers, David ----- Original Message ----- From: cwflamont To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 6:54 AM Subject: [svg-developers] Providing for multiple browsers Could someone please point me towards recent thinking on how to get SVG content to download and display properly in Multiple browsers? The best I can find so far is at: http://wiki.svg.org/Inline_SVG but even then I find that it needs to be stored as an .html file for it download and display properly in Internet Explorer(7) but as an .xhtml to work with Firefox(3.0) & Opera(9.5). I find that if I try to open an .xhtml file in IE, it opens it in Ff. This is despite doing the registry item deletion (to do with IE6 + IE7 Beta) I found somewhere. The similar, but more elaborate example at: http://jwatt.org/svg/demos/xhtml-with-inline-svg.xhtml works less well for me, in that even when given an .html suffix it still does not display the SVG in Explorer. Does referencing the SVG as an <object/> make things better or worse? Clue? [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/ <*> 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! 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