Sounds like a great candidate for some testing; run a few thousand svgs through several browsers and see what kind of problems we get...
-- brion On Sunday, December 4, 2011, Bergi <[email protected]> wrote: > Brion Vibber schrieb: >> Some folks may be interested in my blog post about high-density displays >> and how using higher-density or vector images directly can greatly improve >> rendering and legibility of diagrams and charts: >> >> http://leuksman.com/log/2011/12/04/high-density-displays-mobile-and-beyond/ >> >> If anybody's interested in fiddling around with JavaScript to swap in >> high-density PNG images and scalable SVG images... > > I already have tried to build a userscript for replacing server-rendered > pngs with the original svgs over a year ago. > Problem one were missing viewBox attributes, without which my browser > (Opera, though its fairly good svg support) didn't show them correctly. > I could write a workaround for my userscript, but a > bookmarklet/gadget/whatever will fail because it can't access svg > documents out of the same-domain-scope. > While this might have changed since then, I ran into another problem: > Lots of svg files are optimized to be rendered on WMF server and to be > shown as pngs. The original svg document looks quite different when > viewed in the browser directly, often even worse. Due to varying support > of some svg features between different browsers (and the png-generator) > the display of svgs will differ a lot, and I can't imagine what > unconsitent images would mean to user friendlyness. > > Of course I do not want to say using native svg shouldn't be the aim, > but the conversion won't be easy. > > Bergi > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
