Tels wrote:
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Moin,
On Monday 10 July 2006 22:50, Ron Hall wrote:
Rob Church wrote:
On 10/07/06, Tels nospam-abuse@bloodgate.com wrote:
No. Both Opera and Firefox have really good SVG support in their latest version (both available for free). Likewise,for IE there is the good
Adobe
plugin, which is installed more or less automatic, and free, too.
Browsers improve. Gasp. Features that exist now didn't, back then. And demanding that users install plugins and extensions to browse web sites is the mark of someone who doesn't have a grasp on what they're doing, in the broad scheme.
Once again I bring my tiny,tiny soapbox out and shout. "Yes!" Rob gets it right again.
In my opinion, he "doesnt get it". All the users of my mediawiki installation have SVG support in their browsers and security is no concern for them. To deny them SVG in the mediawiki just because somebody else doesn't have SVG support on their browser is just silly.
If you are designing for the masses (I'm talking millions of users here - your userbase is how big???), then the common denominator will win out. I am a firm believer in building to "good" standards.
Once again, mediawiki is used for alot of other sites beside wikipedia.
Sure we use it for internal documentation and as a quasi-portal for our group.
I have used it to present an HTML tutorial. I'm thinking of building one for high school trig.....
What Wikipedia does, OTOH, is something entirely different.
Yes, but ain't it grand how it does it?
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