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Mozilla Gets (Beta) Native SVG support

Posted by timothy on from the so-check-it-out-and-complain-constructively dept.

Rushuru writes "Mozilla is getting a beta native SVG support. Previously one had to use 3rd party plugins such as that from Adobe, and they only worked on windows. SVG is similar in scope to Flash, but it is a W3 recommendation (i.e. a standard) and uses an open format. The project page has more info."

3 of 321 comments (clear)

  1. Re:SVG/Flash by andrewl6097 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Err...no. From the article:

    SVG is similar in scope to Macromedia's proprietary Flash technology: among other things it offers anti-aliased rendering, pattern and gradient fills, sophisticated filter-effects, clipping to arbitrary paths, text and animations.

  2. SVG Examples by wombatmobile · · Score: 5, Informative
    Website examples?

    SVGmaker gallery
    Kevin Lindsey
    Adobe examples
    Andreas Neumann's Vienna GIS example

  3. Mozilla has had SVG for ages by Daa · · Score: 5, Informative

    As one of the mozilla SVG developers I find it a bit funny that a user creating a freshmeat site to stash their copy of a mozilla svg build is slashdot news. there are daily win32 builds ( from both the trunk and branch SVG trees) posted to ftp.mozilla.org and about monthly linux ( RH7.1) tar.gz. and have been since mozilla 1.0

    There is still no agreement to make SVG part of the base GRE install, the current effort is to re-merge the SVG devel branch back to the trunk

    dave