On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 jon@...18... wrote:
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:11:17 -0700 (PDT) From: jon@...18... To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Cc: Inkscape Developer Mailing List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Adobe SVG Viewer 1.0 problems
After even more trial and error I was able to narrow it down to just this line, the removal of which allows the file to display correctly: xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
it can also be fixed by changing it to xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
Which looks to me more likely to be strictly valid and correct and I hope is the actual fix. Could someone please tell me if it is correct so
Hmmm.. not quite. I think it's a bug in their viewer.
That first statement says "if no tag names have a ':' in the middle, default them as belonging to the namespace {http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%7D"
svg:svg right I should have realised that.
It still sucks though and I cannot be the only one to accidentally install it. I'm pretty sure it got on when I installed an older version of Acrobat Reader with some other software off a CD and overwrote the copy of SVG Reader 3.0 that I already have.
Jasc WebDraw ship a copy of Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0 with thier software, so I guess I need to document the issue somewhere and put some sort of press pack together (journalists love when you write their articles for them) making sure distributors understand the necessity of including an up to date SVG Viewer.
Perhaps as OpenClipart.org progresses and needs even more consistant SVG the Standard SVG exporter will be improved to be even more clean, minimal and homogenous (and therefore robust). I guess if someone develops a TinySVG/MobileSVG exporter I'll get just that.
I'm disappointed the time I spent on this is not going to be useful but thanks all for the prompt and helpful answers.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan