Claus Cyrny wrote:
I just finished my first web design http://home.arcor.de/ccyrny/ in Inkscape that incorporates SVG. The only problem: IE 6 doesn't support it, and I'm not sure about IE 7 (I am using Linux/Firefox).
That is *far* from your only problem. I did my own test [1] some months ago and I discovered that search engines will not index your SVG, will not look at the text inside the SVG and will not follow the links. My test site receives *a lot* of visits form all the major spiders (google, yahoo, msn, baidu) but they just look at the root and do not index it.
I am disappointed by this, as Inkscape could be used to create some wonderful websites.
My question: Does it make sense to keep the SVG (since the web site is for clients)? I really love the look, but I'm especially very disappointed with IE (basically the old story). I would be glad if someone
I think IE support is not the ugliest part of the problem, but search engines (at least for me, I do not care about the visitors with IE on my *personal* website, I'm happy with it as logn is standard compliant, viewable with Firefox and indexed).
could give me some feedback on how my page looks (so far, only the entrance page to my site) in their browser. I would also appreciate feedback/experience
It look fine here with a beta of Firefox 3 on Linux, but I suspect you already know that.
by other members on the list on the use of SVG for web sites.
This is the classic chicken-and-egg problem, if there are not enough sites made with SVG, browsers and search engines will not support SVG and if search engines and browsers do not support SVG, the designers will not make such sites. If we would find a way to put pressure on Google to start indexing SVG then half of the problem would be solved (and the second half maybe with a 3-rd party plugin for IE).
[1] - http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2007/06/authoring-svg-websites-with-inkscape.ht...