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Apple to Adopt KDE4's KDOM and KSVG2?

Posted by timothy on from the adopt-or-die dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "According to Eric Seidel, Apple WebCore developer, Safari may soon have 'experimental SVG support.' He ported KDE's new DOM architecture KDOM as well as their Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) implementation KSVG2 and render tree library KCanvas to WebCore. A new section devoted to SVG is also up on the WebCore site. Does this all mean that SVG will now go mainstream, finally?"

2 of 83 comments (clear)

  1. mistakes in news item by Rob+Buis · · Score: 5, Informative

    The news is ofcourse great. The quality
    of the news item is not. The correct KDOM
    link is:

    http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdenonbeta/kdom/

    Also Eric is *not* part of the Safari team,
    though he works with them often.
    Cheers,

    Rob.

  2. Safari does not already support SVG, Adobe does by Arru · · Score: 5, Informative
    On thefacebook.com, "visualize my friends" creates an svg file that shows all the connections between your friends, and Safari displays it just fine.

    If you have the Adobe SVG plugin it does. But not by itself. Try ctrl-clicking on the SVG graphic and select "About SVG viewer", voilá!

    Apple adding native support would mean that there would be a userbase with SVG support by default, as with good PNG transparency support and CSS text shadows where Apple has paved the way.

    Seems like these days you just can't ask people to download appropriate plugins anymore. Oh how I miss the roarin' nineties...

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