[ome-devel] firefox 1.5 upgrade breaks viewer

[Jason Swedlow]

Hi Kris-

Sorry-- I have been discussing this with Ilya, and delayed submitting  
a bug til I understood it fuller, and had a few different OS's  
tested.  Bottom line is the FF 1.5's support for SVG is insufficient  
for our SVG Viewer.  What is more insidious is how to solve this.  It  
seems the Adobe SVG Installer doesn't recognise an installed FF 1.5.   
I have also tried to manually install SVG 6.0 into FF 1.5 under  
Windows XP-- this leads to pretty disastrous results.  You can look  
around-- there are  various not-so-kind comments on SVG 6.0, FF 1.5,  
etc.  Whose "fault" this is isn't yet clear to me.

Due to time constraints, I have not yet manually installed SVG 3.0  
(nominally, the supported release) into FF 1.5 under the various  
OS's.  We are still trying to determine to what extent FF 1.5's SVG  
support "takes over" and just ignores Adobe's reader, and what our  
response will be.  Pretty frustrating, actually.

Cheers,

Jason


On 17 Jan 2006, at 02:03, kris wrote:

>
> After upgrading, I can no longer see any images
> in the SVGViewer.   The javascript console window
> is reporting the svgDocument is missing.
> This link appears to confirm that this is not supported
> in firefox 1.5:
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/SVG:Scripting
>
>
> However, I am unclear on the fix presented there.
> Anybody know what "name_of_svg" would be in this case?
>
> Sorry I am not familiar with SVG nor javascript, it seems
> simple enough, but ...
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
> kris
>
> -- 
> Kristian Kvilekval
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