- From: Jim Ley <jim@jibbering.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 15:30:26 -0000
- To: www-svg@w3.org
"David Woolley" <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:200310130716.h9D7GBC00848@djwhome.demon.co.uk... > Another news item last week throws serious doubt on the viability of > any plugin based option for SVG for use in non-scripted contexts (e.g. > as a replacement for GIF for straightforward line art images). object is not sufficiently specified for this, due to the non-specified behaviour of links, so you can't use object to include your SVG if some times you intend it to behave like html:img and sometimes behave like html:iframe. If you want to use an SVG image as a replacement for gif, you'll need to use it in a html:img element - I know of no UAs which support this. > As > a work around for the EOLAS patent, IE will prompt every time before > running a plugin unless the resource is provided as a data: scheme URL, > or the object is initialised using DOM manipulation (by code from the > remote site). You can also use iframe to include SVG documents, which is valid, and doesn't have any prompt issues, or require the data to be inline, or written by script. Jim.
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