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Moin,
On Monday 10 July 2006 22:25, 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.
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.
Plus:
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.
Thanx for the insult. I can't change the fact that IE needs a plugin for SVG. (it needs plugins for a lot of other things).
And in any event, it is not _your_ choice to make what users want to use or not. Some people are just happy that a piece of software supports SVG now, and entirely transparently for the users.
Mediawiki is used on a lot of other sites beside wikipedia, and maybe these people really want SVG support, security issues and browser support aside (read: for many internal wikis neither security nor browser support do matter - like when the software support group installs SVG for every user anyway).
But this is actually a seperate issue fro whether Wikipedia allows SVG as SVG upload or rasters them to PNG, or not.
In any event, please spare me your sarcastic replies and insults the next time, I prefer a more friendly discussion.
Best wishes,
Tels
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