Re: [svg-developers] Re: Forcing browsers to render SVG in text/html context

>
> Cool! :-) I've made a set of somehow related experiments, a couple of
> months ago, but wasn't able to publish anything interesting about it
> yet... :-( The idea was to use IE8's improved namespace support [1]
> to allow SVG-in-HTML integration, triggering a SVG rendering plug-in
> (currently only ASV seems to work properly) whenever SVG content is
> found (through an XML namespace declaration). Unfortunately, the
> approach seems to work as expected cross-browser only in text/xml,
> whereas in text/html (ironically) only IE seems to work... I really
> need to find more time to make a few more experiments. :-)

Strangely, all versions of IE do better with unknown markup in the
page than Firefox and Safari.

>
> Regarding the implementation, I've noticed that the approach seems to
> use cloneNode: I recall Holger Will presenting a similar, XSLT-based
> approach a while ago [2] (see "Handle Internet Explorer"). Also, in
> the documentation it's stated that "In Internet Explorer it should do
> basically nothing." [3]: I'm getting an error in IE8 [4] (on Windows
> XP SP3) while visiting the demo. Perhaps using the IE-way of doing DOM
> parsing [5], combined with the (proprietary) import [6] statement,
> then IE+ASV could be supported also... But who cares? ;-D
>

The SVG Web project I'm working on with others can hopefully provide
an alternative to the Adobe ASV plugin:
http://code.google.com/p/svgweb

>> [...] Sorry about the delay, my daughter was born which caused
>> distraction ;-)
>
> Congratulations!!! :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Helder
>
> P.S.: Is 2017 [7] your lucky number? ;-)
>
> [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd565690(VS.85).aspx
> [2] http://www.treebuilder.de/default.asp?file=621700.xml
> [3] http://berjon.com/hacks/force-svg/
> [4] Message: 'DOMParser' is undefined
> Line: 107
> Char: 9
> Code: 0
> URI: http://berjon.com/js/force-svg.js
> [5] http://www.w3schools.com/Dom/dom_parser.asp
> [6] http://www.schepers.cc/inlinesvg.html
> [7] http://berjon.com/js/force-svg.js
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Received on Thursday, 23 July 2009 05:51:02 UTC