[ome-users] Fwd: [ome-devel] firefox 1.5 upgrade breaks viewer

[Ilya Goldberg]

To summarize from a message posted to the developer list:
1.  Get the latest Adobe SVG viewer:
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html

2.  Turn internal SVG support OFF:
type about:config into the URL bar, then type svg.enabled into the  
Filter field. When you double click on the pref you will see its  
value toggle from true to false, turning the native SVG support on/ 
off.  False is what you want.

Happy Viewing!
-Ilya


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Josiah Johnston <siah at nih.gov>
> Date: January 17, 2006 1:18:31 PM EST
> To: Jason Swedlow <jason at lifesci.dundee.ac.uk>
> Cc: ome-devel at lists.openmicroscopy.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [ome-devel] firefox 1.5 upgrade breaks viewer
>
> It's easy to make firefox use Adobe's SVG plugin: http:// 
> www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/faq.html#svg-plugin
> Can I use a plugin for SVG instead of Mozilla's native support?
>
> Individuals can choose to use a plugin to view SVG in Mozilla on  
> their own computers, but there is no way for SVG content authors to  
> make Mozilla use a plugin when people view the SVG files on their  
> website. The native SVG support must be turned off before Mozilla  
> will look to see if there's an SVG plugin installed. This is done  
> by toggling a hidden user configuration preference (pref). To  
> access the pref type about:config into the URL bar, then type  
> svg.enabled into the Filter field. When you double click on the  
> pref you will see its value change to and from true/false, turning  
> the native support on/off.
>
> On Mac OS X, the SVG image viewer works fine in firefox once I did  
> that. The manual install of Adobe's SVG plugin v 3 works fine.  
> That's available at:
> 	http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html
>
> I think it's worth updating the SVG viewer to be compatible with  
> FireFox as soon as FireFox's SVG support is up to the task. One of  
> the primary advantages of using FireFox's SVG support is that it  
> allows communication between the SVG DOM and the DOM of the larger  
> page.
>
> Anyway, try using those instructions to enable Adobe's SVG plugin.  
> If that method works across platforms, then I'll try to augment the  
> "plugin not installed" page that comes up.
>
> -Josiah
>
> On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:51 AM, Jason Swedlow wrote:
>
>> 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
>>> kris at cs.ucsb.edu  http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kris w:805-893-2526 h: 
>>> 504-9756
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