5 entries tagged
safari
and
svg
I have been forced to post
a response
to a page
in SVGWiki, because my attempts to enter a response using
the Wiki page itself have failed with a
VBScript
error.
I also have to say that while I think the Wiki concept
of universal editorship is great, its reliance on its own quirky
syntax is a little annoying.
(On the other hand, HTML is not as amenable to hand-editing as
it might be. This is a result of its being based on the
splendidly verbose SGML syntax.)
Update (8 May 2002). I have updated SVGWiki—after
connecting to it with MSIE rather than Mozilla or Opera.
Perhaps there is some MSIE-specific JavaScript code involved?
Update (14 February 2004).
My note on the object tag has been updated to
reflect the fact that Safari 1.0 (released 2003) cannot handle
objects containing embed.
The
SVG-powered simulated deal now works on Safari. In the
end I achieved this by using the special attribute that
signals to Adobe that it should use its own JavaScript engine,
not its host’s (in this case, Safari’s).
I have also belatedly switched the script to using
document.URL to find its URL rather than the
HTML-style location.search (which fails on Safari
as well).
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I have belatedly updated my
note on using object tags to display SVG to reflect my
having removed object
tags from the Alleged Tarot because Safari cannot cope with them..
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I created the Alleged Tarot in 2002 using SVG, which I was confident at the time was the next big thing in web graphics. Seventy thousand years later, I notice that Safari 4 supports SMIL-style animations in SVG, which means that the commentary and animations I incorporated in to the card designs now work again for the first time since Adobe abandoned their SVG Viewer plug-in.
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The SVG files generated by Lineform have a viewBox attribute and
no width and height attributes on the outermost svg element. This
is good because it means that is necessary to get Webkit browsers (at
least) to treat them as scalable (apparently the S in SVG was not enough
of a hint). Alas! the svg2png utility I want to use to downgrade SVG
files to PNG requires width and height attributes or it assumes
nonsensical values. Here’s my silly recipe for achieving this without
having two copies of every SVG file.
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