[ome-users] Viewing SVG images in OME's web interface

[Ilya Goldberg]

Hi Paulo
The SVG support in Firefox has come a long way, but it has another  
long way to go to do what the SVG viewer needs.
Still, some sort of graceful fall back is probably in order for what  
SVG support there is in Firefox.
It would be great to have some help on this - do you know anything  
about SVG plug-in detection in Firefox?

The target plug-in for the SVG viewer is Adobe's.  They had good  
support for Linux and Firefox, but I think they've grown bored of  
this technology now thanks to their acquisition of Flash technologies.

The real solution to this is to drop requirements for SVG in favor of  
an AJAX-powered viewer.  Certainly everything we need can be done  
this way and with much fewer corporate shenanigans in the mix.  With  
the excitement over OMERO, OME server development has unfortunately  
suffered, but I am in the process of rectifying that situation.  One  
of the first priorities for a new OME Server developer will be to  
replace the SVG viewer with something more future-proof.

If you can recommend a temporary fix based on your experiences, I  
would certainly be interested in communicating with you about it.

-Ilya



On Mar 3, 2008, at 12:58 PM, Paulo Almeida wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I imported a couple of images to an OME server and I was trying to  
> see them
> with the web interface, but it complained that I don't have an SVG  
> plugin. I
> do have one, and I can open the images if I bypass OME's interface  
> (I checked
> the source and used the address that would open in case SVG plugin  
> detection
> was successful). I suppose the way OME detects the presence of an  
> SVG plugin
> is not compatible with the way my plugin works (I'm using Firefox  
> on Linux
> Debian Etch). Is this a known issue? Can you think of a way to fix  
> it other
> than by going to the code and manually removing the check for an  
> SVG plugin?
>
> Thanks,
> Paulo Almeida
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