I've been poking at SVG support a bit; 1.4 in CVS now has the ability to run SVG images through an external rasterizer to display PNGs inline (ImageMagick, Batik, or sodipodi/inkscape though I've had trouble getting those last two working). Of course it would be preferable to be able to use the actual SVG images inline when possible; they should download faster and should print at full resolution. The <object> tag theoretically should let us use the SVG image when the browser supports it and automagically fall back to the rasterized PNG. Unfortunately in my testing I've had a few problems: * No transparency support for plug-ins. All tests I did showed the SVG image on a solid white background. * If the image is embedded in a link, clicking it does not work if the SVG is showing; the click is passed through to the SVG plugin. * In Firefox, clicking or even right-clicking on the PNG if SVG is not available will bring up a plugin search dialog! * Firefox bugs the user to install a plugin if they don't have one already installed. If you click the button to search, it's unable to find any suitable plugins. :P * Printing with the Adobe SVG plugin doesn't work in Safari or Mozilla on Mac OS X, possibly other browsers/platforms are affected. * Some Mozilla users on Debian reported not seeing any image at all on my test page. The test page is here: http://leuksman.com/misc/svgtest/ Anyone have ideas for working around these problems in a sensible way, or is real inline SVG that "just works" like our other images just out for now? -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)