- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:40:23 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org, johannes.roessel@uni-rostock.de
Hello, well such problems/bugs in WebKit are well known - at least for me - this viewer is simply not usable for such SVGs. I think, WebKit itself claims to interprete use, therefore to switch in a warning using a feature string is no option as well. What remains is sniffing of the user agent and create an output with a warning for such viewers using WebKit - this can inform the user about the problem and to force them to switch to a better viewer for such special kinds of SVGs. That it takes a longer time to display IFS and related contructions cannot be a surprise - it is a complex task for the viewer. Well, it can be used to guess, how effective the implementations are - if one needs 20s and another one 5 minutes to display such an IFS, one can guess, that there is a lot of improvement possible for the second one ;o) Determing typical times an author can add information about the delay - for example your attachment is not very nice, would have been better just to link to such files with an additional information about a possible longer rendering time for typical viewers and no rendering for current WebKit versions. IFS with SVG are a pretty elegant method to generate such fractals or for example Penrose pattern as well and several authors (including me) already published examples over the past years - therefore this is an application for SVG, that is really useful and used and published - especially because for example the adobe plugin is an effective viewer for such files and is available already for many years. But it is maybe not a good idea to use this to create for example (animated) IFS as background images for (X)HTML documents or something like this ;o) Olaf
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