On 12/18/06, Walter van Kalken walter@vankalken.net wrote: [snip]
It is this file btw: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/India_roadway_map.svg Waerth
This is somewhat offtopic for foundation-l.
Some versions of firefox have a more buggy SVG renderer than others. Unfortunately, it seems that the Mozilla folks rushed it out... and as you've observed, broken SVG support is worse than none.
In any case we don't intentionally make use of the browsers SVG rendering. The SVG link is not provided so you can view the SVG but rather so you can save it and edit it. We're not trendsetters at all: we're using SVGs for our 'source' format, but what we hand readers is PNGs like almost everyone else.
The ideal way to view an image like this is probably via something that provides zoom and navigation control like the djvu plugins or an ajax based segmented image approach like Google maps. Unfortunately both of these options are not great for accessibility. So again, we're not trendsetting on this front either.
You can probably relax about this subject: The vast majority of users are using a browser which doesn't try to render SVGs inline.
I suppose if browser based SVG support doesn't improve soon, we can adjust the mime-type we hand out with these files to something the browser won't try to render.