On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar neilk@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On 1/3/11 12:22 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
Alternately, we could look at using HTTP access control headers on
upload.wikimedia.org, to allow XMLHTTPRequest in newer browsers to make unauthenticated requests to upload.wikimedia.org and return data directly:
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTTP_Access_Control
That would allow the front-end code to just pull the destination URLs from imageinfo and fetch the image data directly.
Yes. I have no trouble only enabling this for modern browsers, with just Apache config. SVG isn't even available on any version of IE in general use, including IE8.
Note that SVGEdit does work on IE9 preview, if using the latest editor code!
-- brion