Version 8 of the Opera Web Browser is in beta. http://www.opera.com/linux/changelogs/800b3/
One of the new features is support for SVG 1.1 Tiny, which is what makes this worth posting.
With any luck this will serve as a kick in the ass for the Firefox Web Browser and they will also get their act together and support SVG.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Abiword is Awesome http://www.abisource.com
Alan Horkan wrote:
Version 8 of the Opera Web Browser is in beta. http://www.opera.com/linux/changelogs/800b3/
One of the new features is support for SVG 1.1 Tiny, which is what makes this worth posting.
With any luck this will serve as a kick in the ass for the Firefox Web Browser and they will also get their act together and support SVG.
Ummm... they currently have SVG as a compile option, and it will be enabled by default in Firefox 1.1.
Jonathan Leighton wrote:
Ummm... they currently have SVG as a compile option, and it will be enabled by default in Firefox 1.1.
From what I've seen, they have said "not before Mozilla 1.8". Now that there is no Mozilla 1.8, I think that it will be Gecko 1.9, whatever schedule that is.
In my own poor opinion, I think that it is good enough for the masses already, but the Mozilla bosses seem to actually be slowing down in clearing it for prime time, rather than advancing it. Alan is probably correct, that this might be some needed encouragement. Tor and Alex and the others have done a marvelous job with the SVG implementation so far... they now need some support from above.
Bob
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Bob Jamison wrote:
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 11:25:07 -0600 From: Bob Jamison <rjamison@...357...> To: Inkscape ML inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Opera 8 native SVG support
Jonathan Leighton wrote:
Ummm... they currently have SVG as a compile option, and it will be enabled by default in Firefox 1.1.
There is nothing current about the compile time option it has been around for years. The idea of Mozilla as a platform has fallen out of favour and promoting standards like MNG and SVG seems to have gone with it.
From what I've seen, they have said "not before Mozilla 1.8". Now that there is no Mozilla 1.8, I think that it will be Gecko 1.9, whatever schedule that is.
Their plans have been and will be subject to revision. The demise of Mozilla Seamonkey has me all disillusioned. I am not holding my breath for SVG support, it seems unlikely to make the previously promised
I'll leave it at that (before the urge to rant kicks in).
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Abiword is Awesome http://www.abisource.com
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