Re: Firefox SVG
On 1/25/06, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I tried to look at Nico's svg file of dependencies, I found I didn't have an svg viewer. There is one built into firefox, but we don't enable it by default. Is there a reason why? Bruce, another option is to use xsvg that's in the cairo snapshots directory: http://cairographics.org/snapshots/ It may depend on libsvg and/or libsvg-cairo, but I don't remember. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Firefox SVG
On 1/25/06, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 01/25/06 11:24 CST: When I tried to look at Nico's svg file of dependencies, I found I didn't have an svg viewer. There is one built into firefox, but we don't enable it by default. Is there a reason why? I would *recommend* :) that we change this. It took me 45 minutes to rebuild FF on a 3GHz system. That's funny. It takes me about 3.5 hours to rebuild firefox. It is expensive. It takes time and disk space, and I believe it adds some overhead to the running Firefox. This might be true. I don't know if this is the only reason, but firefox-1.5 is stressing my box noticeably harder than firefox-1.0. 1) You should review the options in the .mozconfig file and enable any of them you may need and 2) The option for SVG is well described in the file. I think I agree with Randy here. While I think that SVG support is super-neato, others might not. Part of the point of using the mozconfig file is that instead of adding everything at the command line, you have a text file with extensive comments to decide what you want and what you don't. Additionally, it would be the only option that you must disable if you *don't* want it. Everything else is the exact opposite. You must enable it if you *do* want it. Not exactly. You left --enable-canvas on by default and that's not standard. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Firefox SVG
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 01/25/06 12:30 CST: Not exactly. You left --enable-canvas on by default and that's not standard. I thought of that after I had already sent the email. I was hoping nobody would notice. :-) However, as was discussed in the extensive discussion Jeremy referred to, my testing showed that --enable-canvas used relatively zero additional resources. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 12:33:00 up 122 days, 21:57, 3 users, load average: 0.15, 0.24, 0.40 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Firefox SVG
On 1/25/06, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Additionally, the librsvg library (BLFS Chapter 9) includes a stand-alone tool for viewing SVG files, and can optionally create an SVG plugin for Moz/Firefox. I'm not sure how good the plugin works, though. I've never tried it. I've heard it's not good, and that was part of the push to use cairo for svg rendering by default. Of course, I have no idea where I got that info from. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Firefox SVG
Randy McMurchy wrote: I don't mean this to be rude or condescending to you specifically, Bruce, but I just felt that most would heed the note to review the file and enable it if they wanted it. Just out of curiosity, did you not want it when you initially built Firefox? Nah. You aren't being rude. As the Editor, I normally build packages *exactly* the way the book says with most optional packages (but not all). I did read the note, but I didn't know I needed svg at the time. Lookng at my build, I fine four svg related libraries (.a) in FF for a total of about 3MB. Is this too much bloat? According to what I read, most FF binaries come with svg built in. I now think that it would be expected by most users and shuod be the default. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Firefox SVG
Bruce Dubbs wrote: According to what I read, most FF binaries come with svg built in. I now think that it would be expected by most users and should be the default. +1 Andy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
