6 entries tagged
mozilla
As noted below, I have
been experimenting with SVG. So far I have been
forced to borrow Jeremy’s NT box because I cannot get
any of the Linux-based SVG viewers to work. Mozilla with SVG (Alex
Fritze’s build #6, based on Mozilla 0.9.3) cannot
run on my RedHat-6.1-based desktop, because I lack some
libraries. I have downloaded Mozilla+SVG for Windows NT,
which annoyingly does not display (1) the examples in the
W3C recommendation for
SVG, (2) the SVG test suite,
(3) Adobe’s SVG
samples, or (4) my hand-written SVG files. I’m
not even going to try to install any of the Java-based SVG
viewers until I have thoroughly upgraded my Linux box. Sodipodi sounds
attractive, but again I need more libraries.
(I understand Debian GNU/Linux’s package manager will
automatically acquire missing dependencies—is this true?)
So for now I will have to do my cross-platform development
on a borrowed Windows NT box...
It turns out my front page did not work on
Mozilla—the division containing the main text started at
the top of the screen rather than 76px down from the top (as
I has expected, given that its top margin was 76px).
I changed this, but in order to test on Mozilla (which
takes some minutes to start up on my K6/233) I needed to
persuade thttpd to serve
CSS marked as type
text/css. (This is necessary because the W3C specs
require that web browsers believe what web servers tell them,
and it it says a file is text/plain it is not a
style sheet.)
In theory I did this months ago
(edit mime_types.txt, rebuild, reinstall). Testing
this is a pain as well—Mozilla 0.9.7 does not give any
easy way to find the content-type of auxillary files, so you
have to type HTTP requests in to TELNET by hand... In the end
it ocurred to me to run TELNET in an Emacs buffer so at least
the retyping of HEAD /mumble/foo/bar.css HTTP/1.0
could be done almost-automatically... In the end it turns out
that I needed to do make clean to force a
complete rebuild, otherwise changes to
mime_types.txt made no difference :-(.
Added a
paragraph to my Tarot section about how Mozilla does not
support SVG.
This is not news, exactly, but it is disapointing that there are
no new development on the plug-in fiasco—apart from a
succession of duplicate reports of the bug (which I have
discovered is difficult to locate if you don’t memorize
its number).
The image-cycling feature of the
Picky Picky Game
prototype depends on using JavaScript to load images. If
you click on the Cycle button before the images have been
prloaded, then nothing visible happens—it appears to have
failed. There is no way for the user to see whether the images
have loaded or not. I have attempted to add such an indication,
only to be thwarted by what appear to be bugs in the web
browsers I have tried it on.
Read more
Good news, everyone! Mozilla now has a working SVG implementation
thanks to Alex Fritze of
croczilla.org. It even has suppport for plugging in
platform-specific back-ends so that in principle the Mac OS X
version might be able to exploit Quartz Extreme. Cool! This
could mean a working SVG-enabled release of Mozilla sometime
before I die of old age.
Read more
Today I have tweaked the CSS for the new look slightly: subheadings
within articles no longer live in the left margin, and italics have gone
a little curlier.
Read more
