Rick wrote:
Google has opened a service recently called Google pages that allows google users to create their own web pages for free hosted by Google.
Like all other things touched by Google, this could become a major service.
Currently, in order to insert an image into Google Pages you go through an upload dialog. You can upload any file you want, but it you upload an SVG image the dialog warns you that the image type that you just uploaded (SVG) is not supported by most browsers. This is not true, SVG is supported by FireFox. Opera, Konqueror, Safari, Amaya, and with Adobe plugin support, IE.
Having uploaded the file, there is no easy way to insert it into your page. The file IS there, but the image dialog control does not address it. So, at this point, you can, if you are very savvy, get the image into your page. But, lo, it appears, the last time I checked, that Google does not have image/svg+xml set in their servers, so it won't be properly displayed anyway.
I suspect this happens because SVG images are not treated as normal images (the <IMG> tag), to include them in HTML you have to use <OBJECT> and/or <EMBED>
Project: Update the Google Pages interface to handle SVG and allow SVG images in Google Page content.
The Google Pages interface is Open Source? I think not.
Also, Google itself is mentoring SoC projects, would not be that a better place for your idea? http://code.google.com/soc/google/about.html