Hi Matt:

On 12/14/07, Matthew Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> When we discussed this before I predicted that SVG would reduce server
> side computation and network bandwidth usage while increasing client
> side computation, but it's great to see hard numbers Jesse, nice testing
> there. :)  Unfortunately, Bernard is probably right that rrdtool's SVG
> output currently won't be very consistent between browsers (I don't
> think very many people use rrdtool SVG output, but I might be able to
> put some work in to rrdtool to stabilize the SVG output between
> browsers).  The worst problem I think though would be embedding the SVG
> graphs within an HTML page.  That is probably the least consistent thing
> between browsers: since IE uses the Adobe SVG viewer plugin it needs a
> different embedding method than Firefox and Opera which have native SVG
> support.  I don't know what Safari is like for SVG support.  I think
> there are a few solutions for abstracting the embed method so that it is
> browser-independent, but I'm probably not the best person to go to on
> that since I've never even used SVG embedding except for seeing some
> tutorials that do it. :)

I think it would be great if you can work on rrdtool's SVG consistency
"issue".  It would benefit all the projects which use rrdtool for its
graphing capabilities.

Thanks,

Bernard

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