[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki 1.7.0 and SVG support

[Ronald Hall]

Tels wrote:

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> Moin,
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> On Monday 10 July 2006 22:50, Ron Hall wrote:
> > Rob Church wrote:
> > > On 10/07/06, Tels <nospam-abuse at 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.
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> 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.

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> 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.....

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> What Wikipedia does, OTOH, is something entirely different.
>
    Yes, but ain't it grand how it does it?

   
    atb

    r