Tels wrote:
On Monday 10 July 2006 22:25, Rob Church wrote:
> On 10/07/06, Tels
<nospam-abuse(a)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.
As I recall, the decision to not support SVG (on wikipedia) was mainly due
to security concerns, and not because it "doesnt work". Maybe I was wrong,
but there is no need for sarcasm, tho.
We do support SVG on Wikipedia and in MediaWiki, as an option, if you install
and enable one of several possible support programs.
At the moment we only do server-side rasterization because browser support
detection, code sanitization, and inline display features haven't been written
yet. Market penetration is still limited -- only the latest major revisions of
Firefox and Opera support SVG, while Safari and the all-imported, all-hated
Internet Explorer still don't without plugins -- and browsers are still rather
inconsistent as to how well something will render and behave across platforms.
As browser support for inline SVG continues to improve this will become a more
and more useful thing, and eventually it will get written.
Of course, if some particular person wants such support *right now*, they'll
have to either:
* write it themselves
* find someone else to volunteer to write it
* hire someone to write it
In the meantime, SVG uploads with server-side rasterization are available now,
and work with all browsers as well as the rasterizer program you install can render.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)