Re: [svg-developers] UUgle Map of Pologonia

2013-08-18 Thread Guy Morton
When I go it says This is an Internet Explorer web application. So, you've lost me at the start. Why would you build an app in SVG that only works in IE? IE is about as popular as syphilis these days. Guy On 19/08/2013, at 8:06 AM, Francis Hemsher fhems...@gmail.com wrote: ...I'm at it

Re: [svg-developers] Use in HTML. Who's Right, Who's Wrong.

2011-04-01 Thread Guy Morton
Interesting rant on your site. You do know that Safari is built from the same codebase as Chrome, don't you? But one is a real browser and the other isn't? Apple has been one of the main protagonists in the fight for better standards support on the web. Their (I think brave) decision to not

Re: [svg-developers] Use in HTML. Who's Right, Who's Wrong.

2011-04-01 Thread Guy Morton
page? There's an old saying You catch more flies with honey than vinegar that you might like to ponder. I don't think telling people they are idiots is a great way to get them to change... Guy On 02/04/2011, at 10:21 AM, Guy Morton wrote: Interesting rant on your site. You do know that Safari

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Use in HTML. Who's Right, Who's Wrong.

2011-04-01 Thread Guy Morton
Perhaps he should qualify it as IE9, since hardly anyone will have IE9 anytime soon, sadly. All those XP users will be stuck on IE8 or worse for many years to come. On 02/04/2011, at 10:13 AM, Francis Hemsher wrote: Hi James, You'll be pleased to know your site works well in IE9.

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Use in HTML. Who's Right, Who's Wrong.

2011-04-01 Thread Guy Morton
will get filters soon. Guy On 02/04/2011, at 10:43 AM, jamesd wrote: --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton guy@... wrote: And btw, your site looks fine in Safari...not much different to how it looks in Chrome in fact. You did view the site with Chrome? You don't see

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe Labs Wallaby's use of SVG

2011-03-11 Thread Guy Morton
Hi Andreas I hadn't actually *tried* it, so your feedback is useful. I thought it would be a bit smarter than that, and would translate sprite animations into the equivalent DOM graphic + animation, but I guess timeline-based things like tweening have no corollary in SVG. I guess we shouldn't

Re: [svg-developers] Adobe Labs Wallaby's use of SVG

2011-03-10 Thread Guy Morton
HTML5 is a bit of a catch-all. In practice it is used to refer to stuff browsers other than IE can do, so I don't have a problem with SVG being counted as a HTML5 feature. Obviously, the limitations of canvas mean it's not a good way to implement things like sprites that need to be modified

Re: [svg-developers] SVG SMIL in Safari ( Test Sample )

2011-02-19 Thread Guy Morton
If you enable the developer tools in Safari you can tell Safari to run in iPhone or iPad mode. Very useful for debugging. On 20/02/2011, at 1:49 AM, Raks A wrote: Hi, I have written a SVG SMIL animation but as I do not have any iOS device can someone help me in comparing the animation in

Re: [svg-developers] SVG SMIL in Safari ( Test Sample )

2011-02-19 Thread Guy Morton
And of course you can also download Safari for windows. On 20/02/2011, at 8:58 AM, Jeff Schiller wrote: Safari is powered by WebKit so you should be able to get some idea by looking at Chrome (though the WebKit powering Safari on iOS is different). Jeff On Feb 19, 2011 6:49 AM, Raks A

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Release of SVG Web

2011-02-09 Thread Guy Morton
Indeed and while IE usage worldwide is dropping rapidly, mostly in favour of Chrome (for good reasons) it will still be many years before IE9 drops to 5% of the market, which is the point at which most developers would cut it loose. See http://gs.statcounter.com/ IE is currently about 46% of

Re: [svg-developers] IE9 SVG Support - Making the web better!

2011-01-28 Thread Guy Morton
Yes, I saw the same. They are just pulling from twitter though right? That's the problem with crowd-sourced content... :-) On 29/01/2011, at 9:50 AM, jamesd wrote: Time for some humor! I was bored and so… went to see the MS IE9 SVG demos. I selected the SVG tweet cloud demo. My mouse cursor

Re: [svg-developers] SVG in iPhone App

2011-01-13 Thread Guy Morton
Titanium embeds a webkit engine in your app. On 13/01/2011, at 4:55 PM, Raks A wrote: Could not find anything related to SVG in Titanium, are you sure that Titanium has built in SVG player than can play SVG SMIL animation ? - Raks A On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Guy Morton g

Re: [svg-developers] SVG in iPhone App

2011-01-13 Thread Guy Morton
in Regards Raks A On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Guy Morton g...@alchemy.com.au wrote: Titanium embeds a webkit engine in your app. On 13/01/2011, at 4:55 PM, Raks A wrote: Could not find anything related to SVG in Titanium, are you sure that Titanium has built in SVG player

Re: [svg-developers] SVG in iPhone App

2011-01-12 Thread Guy Morton
Look at the Titanium framework. http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-application-development/ On 13/01/2011, at 3:24 PM, Raks A wrote: I know SVG is supported in iPhone Safari browser, but are there APIs to play SVG SMIL animation using iPhone APIs I've never written

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe AIR drops SVG

2010-12-21 Thread Guy Morton
There's a JS called Easel you might like to look at. I had exactly the same questions. It looks to me like Easel is trying to make Canvas have the same capabilities as SVG. Why? I think, as you suggest, any browser that has Canvas support also has some level of SVG support. Why try to give

Re: [svg-developers] Adobe AIR drops SVG

2010-11-11 Thread Guy Morton
I think Adobe are strategising themselves out of the game. They are fiddling while Rome burns. If you haven't already, look at Titanium...write once, deploy EVERYWHERE using WebKit as your runtime engine. And by everywhere I mean Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android AND you can deploy your code

Re: [svg-developers] Adobe AIR drops SVG

2010-11-10 Thread Guy Morton
For out of browser apps built with open web technologies look at Titanium. http://www.appcelerator.com/ Both AIR and Titanium use WebKit to render your content, but Titanium doesn't strip out competing technologies, because the developers don't OWN any competing technologies. Titanium is free

Re: [svg-developers] Why is SVG performance so bad in Chrome and Firefox?

2010-11-04 Thread Guy Morton
Loaded as quickly in FF3.6 on mac as it did in safari on mac... Since Chrome and Safari use the same engine I'm surprised you're seeing a difference between safari and chrome in terms of performance. Guy On 05/11/2010, at 6:58 AM, scalablev wrote: Try

Re: [svg-developers] SVG vs. Canvas

2010-10-29 Thread Guy Morton
How ironic. A talk about SVG on Canvas that requires Silverlightoh Patrick, you're a wag! Are you sure this isn't just a ploy to get more Silverlight downloads? On 30/10/2010, at 5:33 AM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:20 PM, patrickdengler

Re: [svg-developers] Re: displaying svg on IE after 12-31-08

2009-01-02 Thread Guy Morton
You didn't look very hard. Try scrolling to the middle of the page... On 03/01/2009, at 9:58 AM, Fuliopen wrote: I went to the following web page: http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/ It seems that ASV is no longer available for download. But if one has already installed ASV to his

Re: [svg-developers] Google working on Javascript drop-in enabling SVG on IE

2008-12-31 Thread Guy Morton
Sounds like a great project, Brad. If you feel up to a challenge, look at http://lhr.webtrak-lochard.com/ HNY to you too. Guy On 29/12/2008, at 8:39 AM, Brad Neuberg wrote: Hi Stelton I'm working on this here at Google as part of a group focused on Open Web Advocacy. I'm using Flash to do

Re: [svg-developers] displaying svg on IE after 12-31-08

2008-12-30 Thread Guy Morton
Tell them to stop using that piece of junk browser and start using something more secure and standards compliant, eg Firefox, Safari, Opera. Any of those is better than IE - by a long shot, and all render SVG (though supported features may vary from one to another). Guy On 31/12/2008, at

Re: [svg-developers] displaying svg on IE after 12-31-08

2008-12-30 Thread Guy Morton
By the way, it might interest all to know that based on recent stats for our web app, IE (all versions) has only 55% of the browser market these days. A few years back it had 85%. I quote this because many people, it seems to me, are stuck on the idea that IE hold an unassailable position

Re: [svg-developers] Converting JPG files to SVG

2008-12-08 Thread Guy Morton
Just curious...but why are you doing that? On 09/12/2008, at 3:13 PM, Judy Perry wrote: I use Inkscape a lot. I've been converting some of my jpg files into svg files (opening the jpg file and save as a svg), but with over 1000 files to convert, it is going to take me quite some time. What

Re: [svg-developers] Re: MS acquires ASV3 to bundle in IE8?

2008-11-12 Thread Guy Morton
Where are people getting the ideas that either MS is serious about adding native SVG support to IE, or that there is any chance at all that Adobe would sell them ASV? I mean, it's a nice daydream of course, but this is MS we're talking about here... Guy On 12/11/2008, at 10:43 PM, Francis

Re: [svg-developers] Interesting claim about Silverlight

2008-10-11 Thread Guy Morton
++ On 11/10/2008, at 2:21 PM, Doug Schepers wrote: Hi, David- Brilliantly, hilariously written. You should repost this in a blog for wider exposure and posterity. Regards- -Doug ddailey wrote (on 10/10/08 9:54 PM): I noticed tonight that the number of hits returned by Google to a

Re: [svg-developers] Re: SVG is available on iPod Touch and iPhone

2008-09-20 Thread Guy Morton
Nice work. On 20/09/2008, at 10:49 PM, meikelneu wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: good to hear, Guy. Yes, I think that mobile apps need to be different from desktop apps. Not only are the displays smaller, but the touch screen events are probably not very precise, compared to a mouse

Re: [svg-developers] Re: A question on IE browser

2008-08-29 Thread Guy Morton
I always recommend people use something other than IE. It's the work of the devil. :-) Safari, Opera Firefox all have some level of SVG support and are available on Mac and Windows. On 30/08/2008, at 2:49 AM, Samuel Dagan wrote: Hi Fulio, It is not known if and when ASV will be not any

Re: [svg-developers] Re: A question on IE browser

2008-08-29 Thread Guy Morton
You should work on the basis that IE will NEVER natively support SVG. MS are playing a clever game of brinkmanship here, knowing that while they keep native SVG support in IE as a possibility, it will cripple efforts to build an alternative as developers will think why start that when IE

Re: [svg-developers] Re: A question on IE browser

2008-08-29 Thread Guy Morton
that are useful in the HTML5 context. This is something that Microsoft increasingly cannot simply ignore. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should work on the basis that IE will NEVER natively support SVG. MS are playing a clever game

Re: [svg-developers] HTML named anchors in SVG

2007-10-22 Thread Guy Morton
That's an IE 'feature'. In case you haven't noticed yet, IE is a piece of crap. You can use javascript to scroll to a named anchor, though. Do a google. scrollTo I think is one of the js functions you are looking for. Also, browserEval is your friend. Guy On 22/10/2007, at 1:23 PM,

Re: [svg-developers] Re: .getSVGDocument() issue with Opera 9.5

2007-09-07 Thread Guy Morton
We ended up dynamically writing either object or embed, based on a browser sniff. I think that's the safest approach. Guy On 08/09/2007, at 2:36 AM, brucerindahl wrote: --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Armin Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce, we had the same problem. I now

Re: [svg-developers] Safari 3 Beta now available for Windows and Macintosh

2007-06-12 Thread Guy Morton
it loads served files ok in my experience, eg http://lhr.webtrak- lochard.com/svg, but it doesn't run our application, sadly. I'm not sure what they are missing, but it works on our stuff about as well as webkit (which is not really a surprise). Would be great if it worked, especially if it

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Silverlight and other RIA's and RWC

2007-06-12 Thread Guy Morton
:57 PM, pilatfr wrote: --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you've put plenty of words in. Saying something can work on 90% of browsers right now when what you really mean is if they install the plugin is disingenuous at best and downright

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Silverlight and other RIA's and RWC

2007-06-11 Thread Guy Morton
I think you've put plenty of words in. Saying something can work on 90% of browsers right now when what you really mean is if they install the plugin is disingenuous at best and downright dishonest at worst. At least SVG has real native support in the most popular IE alternatives out there,

Re: [svg-developers] Moderated Status and End of Thread (was: OT)

2007-05-28 Thread Guy Morton
http://blogs.theage.com.au/thedailytruth/archives/2006/11/get.html I don't think anyone's saying SVG has no challenges ahead. I think a lot of people who are interested in using SVG *want* to support the open standards of the w3c rather than have yet another promising standard bastardised

Re: [svg-developers] Moderated Status and End of Thread

2007-05-28 Thread Guy Morton
Yes, Claus, I'd actually seen this once before. What is the status with it? Perhaps this is a project the SVG community ought to be trying to help push forward? Guy On 29/05/2007, at 8:30 AM, Claus Wahlers wrote: If Adobe were smart, they'd build SVG support into the flash plugin (as an

Re: [svg-developers] OT (was: Have you played with Silverlight?)

2007-05-26 Thread Guy Morton
So why are you still here? On 26/05/2007, at 5:41 PM, Geoffrey Swenson wrote: SVG is probably a dead duck. I have not wanted to invest any more work in it for more than a year. This is not to say that I dislike SVG much at all, but the Adobe plugin has a lot of problems, and SVG is

Re: [svg-developers] OT (was: Have you played with Silverlight?)

2007-05-25 Thread Guy Morton
Right on Doug! It's especially irritating when people post nothing of substance except ra-ra-ras for their preferred SVG alternative. If SVG isn't what you're interested in, unsubscribe! Guy On 26/05/2007, at 11:14 AM, Doug Schepers wrote: Hi, Kevin and Geoff, et al- As owner of the

Re: [svg-developers] converting external GML file into SVG using DOM/JS...

2007-04-25 Thread Guy Morton
getElementsByTagName is unreliable in IE/ASV. You haven't given a lot of details but I suspect this is your problem. we had similar problems and wrote a replacement function and the problem went away. Guy On 25/04/2007, at 9:26 PM, krugerboy1971 wrote: I am trying to load some external

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe SVG reload problem

2007-02-13 Thread Guy Morton
I don't know. Ask Adobe perhaps. I can't think of a logical reason for Adobe to ban third parties distributing ASV if Adobe themselves is going to continue to make it available for download from their web site. Guy On 13/02/2007, at 8:30 PM, Dylan Browne wrote: ASV 3 will be *available*

Re: [svg-developers] FF3.0a2 works great

2007-02-13 Thread Guy Morton
I wish I could report the same happy news. Unfortunately, GranParadiso (on MacOSX at least) fails to render *anything* for me. It even seems buggy in doing normalish browser things like resizing framesets (the toolbar has half disappeared under the window title in my testing). Have a look

Re: [svg-developers] FF3.0a2 works great

2007-02-13 Thread Guy Morton
Aha...well that's the problem for me. I resized the window and it appeared. Good to know you know what is causing it. And I'll add my Wow to Andre's...FF used to use 70% of my CPU playing this file. Now it's using about 7%. There are some screen redrawing issues though still, which you'll

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe SVG reload problem

2007-02-12 Thread Guy Morton
ASV 3 will be *available* indefinitely. It won't be *supported* after Jan 2008. On 13/02/2007, at 5:57 AM, Ronan Oger wrote: On Monday 12 February 2007 18:42, nphasematt wrote: I upgraded my ASV to the beta 6 version, a Matt, ASV is a retiring product, and ASV6 will never be upgraded.

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Adobe SVG reload problem

2007-02-12 Thread Guy Morton
it on their EOL FAQ http://www.adobe.com/svg/pdfs/ASV_EOL_FAQ.pdf The lack of certification on Vista is interesting. Has anyone tried running SVG apps in IEx on Vista? Ronan On Monday 12 February 2007 22:37, Guy Morton wrote: ASV 3 will be *available* indefinitely. It won't be *supported* after

Re: [svg-developers] Renesis SVG Player 0.5 launches

2007-02-06 Thread Guy Morton
Good to see progress being made, though this version of the plugin still doesn't run my app... looks like scripting may still be not quite there? Anyone else tried it out? Guy On 06/02/2007, at 1:52 AM, emiasys wrote: Hello, Just a short notice that Renesis SVG Player 0.5 has been

Re: [svg-developers] Please help. XML display instead of SVG app

2007-01-14 Thread Guy Morton
You are using getTarget() and getOwnerDocument(). These are ASV- specific I believe and should be replaced with their standard equivalents. On 15/01/2007, at 6:40 AM, Marjorie Roswell wrote: What goes around comes around. SVG now works beautifully at work (the goal from this 2-year-ago

Re: [svg-developers] Vaguely seasonal greetings (VSG/SVG)

2006-12-12 Thread Guy Morton
Bravo! :-) On 13/12/2006, at 7:26 AM, Marjorie Roswell wrote: A Vaguely Seasonal Musical Greeting (AVMG) To the tune of Old McDonald... an homage to our acronyms: Old McDonald raised his arm And pointed towards the sky In SVG with ASV, he peered both far and high With an Opera here,

[svg-developers] Opera 9.02 on Windows problems

2006-12-12 Thread Guy Morton
Hi all We're seeing some problems with the latest version of Opera on Windows XP. Sometimes our application fully loads and starts up, sometimes it doesn't, but just hangs at the init stage. When it does run, it uses 99% of CPU pretty consistently. On the Mac version of opera running under

Re: [svg-developers] why we're converting an SVG splash to Flash ([EMAIL PROTECTED]@!!)

2006-12-07 Thread Guy Morton
Hi Doc I've been programming for the Internet since 1994 as well - long enough to have seen how these things go, and I don't think Adobe are giving ANY indication that they plan to roll SVG support into the Flash plugin. John Dowdell himself hinted that this was probably not going to be

[svg-developers] Adding SVG support to the Flash plugin

2006-12-07 Thread Guy Morton
a pretty good solution for browsers that require an SVG plugin. Anyway, the above may be completely impractical or technically impossible. I just thought I'd share it in case it's not. :-) Guy On 06/12/2006, at 10:09 AM, John Dowdell wrote: Guy Morton wrote: Re: the suggestion that Adobe

Re: [svg-developers] retraction

2006-12-07 Thread Guy Morton
Splash screens for web sites are so 90s anyway, you're better off without them altogether. :-) Guy - To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click edit my membership Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group

Re: [svg-developers] retraction

2006-12-07 Thread Guy Morton
I'd have used Flash for the sort of thing you were describing anyway. :-) SVG doesn't have the installed base you'd want for a web site splash screen. Flash does, and excels at pretty animated graphics (not that it's only good for that, you can also build pretty cool apps in Flash). Guy

Re: [svg-developers] Re: WPF/E Goes Beta Community preview available for download

2006-12-06 Thread Guy Morton
How hard would it be to package this as an SVG plugin? ie package it in a windows installer a user could download and run and which would install itself and behave as the ASV plugin does today? Guy On 07/12/2006, at 3:53 AM, T Rowley wrote: On 12/6/06 10:36 AM, Jeff Schiller wrote: I

Re: [svg-developers] Re: WPF/E Goes Beta Community preview available for download

2006-12-05 Thread Guy Morton
that intention before now, if that was their plan? Why would they do it? Guy Tony --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would I want to ask my Firefox and Opera-using clients to download a plug-in to do something those browsers can already do natively

Re: [svg-developers] Re: WPF/E Goes Beta Community preview available for download

2006-12-04 Thread Guy Morton
. It has nothing to do with blinders or gullibility or that Bill Gates invented the Web, Cellular Telephone, and Transistor or whatever else he invented. Kevin --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nup, I'm not the least bit interested in that. Another

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Will IE 7.5 or IE8 offer a browser with built-in SVG support?

2006-11-17 Thread Guy Morton
On 17/11/2006, at 7:11 PM, steltenpower wrote: -Adobe thinks it needs the open format SVG is, to be able to stand Microsoft competition. As more and more people understand the advantage of a real open format, but too many people think SVG is an Adobe(-only) format, Adobe is taking a lower

Re: [svg-developers] Another FF2 text-anchor bug

2006-11-17 Thread Guy Morton
I've not heard of any progress on this, other than I think they are taking a serious look into why it's happening (at least I hope they are). Another example for them to chew over can only help. There is no workaround as far as i know, which leaves us currently unable to consider FF2 a

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Another FF2 text-anchor bug

2006-11-17 Thread Guy Morton
= svgdoc.getElementById(compValue).getAttributeNS (null,x); morex = parseInt(morex) - 40; svgdoc.getElementById(compValue).setAttributeNS (null,x,morex); } } Richard --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've not heard of any progress on this, other than I

Re: [svg-developers] Re: FF2 text-anchor bug?

2006-11-16 Thread Guy Morton
, but is filled in by script. If I add child text such as a '-', then it works fine. http://www.wpsenergy.com/JayNick/RTG/RTGraph.svg Jay Nick --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, T Rowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/8/06 6:11 PM, Guy Morton wrote: It seems in FF2 on Windows that all

Re: [svg-developers] Will IE 7.5 or IE8 offer a browser with built-in SVG support?

2006-11-16 Thread Guy Morton
Whether they do or not will depend entirely on what they think will maximize their profits. Right now I suspect they probably think supporting SVG natively won't do much one way or the other for their bottom line so I, personally, will be surprised if they exert themselves unduly to

Re: [svg-developers] Re: FF2 text-anchor bug?

2006-11-15 Thread Guy Morton
@yahoogroups.com, T Rowley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/8/06 6:11 PM, Guy Morton wrote: It seems in FF2 on Windows that all my text elements that use text- anchor=middle are now positioned incorrectly. FF2 on Mac doesn't show the problem (though it has other text bugs) Anyone know anything about

Re: [svg-developers] FF2 text-anchor bug?

2006-11-15 Thread Guy Morton
don't find a solution, it will be far easier for others to try to help you. My intuition is that you are running into a problem with tspan elements. Regards- -Doug Guy Morton wrote: Tim? Did you have any luck with this FF2 bug? Guy On 09/11/2006, at 11:35 AM, T Rowley wrote: On 11/8

Re: [svg-developers] FF2 text-anchor bug?

2006-11-14 Thread Guy Morton
Tim? Did you have any luck with this FF2 bug? Guy On 09/11/2006, at 11:35 AM, T Rowley wrote: On 11/8/06 6:11 PM, Guy Morton wrote: It seems in FF2 on Windows that all my text elements that use text- anchor=middle are now positioned incorrectly. FF2 on Mac doesn't show the problem (though

Re: [svg-developers] Re: FF2 text-anchor bug?

2006-11-09 Thread Guy Morton
browsers as well? In the meantime, you can test this bug by going to http://lhr.webtrak- lochard.com/svg. That URL will load the SVG directly (it won't work in IE/ASV though). regards Guy On 10/11/2006, at 12:55 AM, Martin Honnen wrote: --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton [EMAIL

[svg-developers] FF2 text-anchor bug?

2006-11-08 Thread Guy Morton
It seems in FF2 on Windows that all my text elements that use text- anchor=middle are now positioned incorrectly. FF2 on Mac doesn't show the problem (though it has other text bugs) Anyone know anything about this? Anyone at Mozilla working on it? It is a MAJOR pain. In fact, FF2 on windows

Re: [svg-developers] FF2 text-anchor bug?

2006-11-08 Thread Guy Morton
aligned correctly, but some (like the tooltips) are not. Guy On 09/11/2006, at 11:35 AM, T Rowley wrote: On 11/8/06 6:11 PM, Guy Morton wrote: It seems in FF2 on Windows that all my text elements that use text- anchor=middle are now positioned incorrectly. FF2 on Mac doesn't show the problem

[svg-developers] Map servers

2006-11-08 Thread Guy Morton
Who has a recommendation for a source of map data? Prefer a hosted solution rather than setting up our own map server (eg www.arcwebservices.com). Would like access to satellite/aerial imagery if possible. What services have people used? What's hot? What's not? Guy - To unsubscribe

Re: 0,0 au centre [svg-developers] Re: SVG 1.1 Layers

2006-10-13 Thread Guy Morton
It's not forbidden, it's just that most of us have at best a smattering of high-school French, so if you want answers you *may* have to lower yourself to our level. ;-) OR On ne l'interdit pas, il est seulement que la plupart d'entre nous a au mieux un notion du Français de lycée, ainsi si

Re: [svg-developers] Adobe extends ASV customer support and download availability

2006-10-11 Thread Guy Morton
Yes, good on you for listening. Now if you could just finish the beta version (v6) of the plugin - I live that little critter! Guy On 11/10/2006, at 5:04 PM, Antoine Quint wrote: On 11 oct. 2006, at 01:47, Paton J. Lewis wrote: In response to customer feedback, Adobe has extended customer

Re: [svg-developers] Re: COALITION - (WAS: Announcement: Adobe to Discontinue Adobe SVG Viewer)

2006-09-18 Thread Guy Morton
Yeah, but it's not too professional-looking to have to give a list of abandoned websites that happen to host the plugin and hope that joe public will trust that any software thus downloaded isn't riddled with virii and worms. who's going to guarantee that it isn't? You? I love civil

Re: [svg-developers] COALITION - (WAS: Announcement: Adobe to Discontinue Adobe SVG Viewer)

2006-09-17 Thread Guy Morton
Yes, not much use if you want joe public to go and install it though. P2P is hardly a trusted source in most people's books. The same appies to everyone adopting a stance of civil disobedience and hosting it on their own sites. Adobe ought to host it for a year or two more than they've

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Is Adobe's greed clearing the way for XAML

2006-09-07 Thread Guy Morton
, Microsoft will give something like a 5-year window before VML quits working with new versions of IE. Or at least that what my personal crystal ball shows. Jon Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] au

Re: [svg-developers] Announcement: Adobe to Discontinue Adobe SVG Viewer

2006-09-06 Thread Guy Morton
Anyone had any experience of converting SVG to flex? Clearly Adobe is hoping that's what will happen. Guy On 07/09/2006, at 3:00 AM, Doug Schepers wrote: Hi, folks- There is a FAQ associated with this announcement, but of course, it's in Web-unfriendly PDF. I'm forwarding on the text

Re: [svg-developers] Help on porting Windows IE ASV SVG app to Linux laptop

2006-08-24 Thread Guy Morton
hear hear. i'm an opera convert. SVG is a little slower at times but it doesn't use as much CPU as FF and it's more solid and has the best standards support of any browser, imho. I can also personally vouch for the responsiveness of the Opera team. if everyone used opera, my life would be

Re: [svg-developers] Re: IE tries to download, not display svg file

2006-08-16 Thread Guy Morton
how are you embedding your SVG? in an embed tag? do you have a content-type attribute in there? is there a difference between the IE versions? are you compressing the SVG file with gzip? Guy On 16/08/2006, at 2:42 AM, Sean wrote: I had put this off to the side thinking it might have been

ASV v2.0 detection (Was Re: [svg-developers] Data not available)

2006-08-03 Thread Guy Morton
believing they are SVG capable while actually seeing your content displayed in the ASV2.0 plugin? Guy On 03/08/2006, at 2:08 PM, Phi Tran wrote: On 8/2/06, Guy Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jonathan. No, the SVG is definitely not local for her. I've received new screenshots from

[svg-developers] Data not available

2006-08-02 Thread Guy Morton
I'm hoping someone more experienced than I can chuck us a clue on this one. We have a user of our app that claims that they can see the little Adobe-provided Spinning balls SVG movie but that when they go to load our app all they see is a message in plain text saying Data not available.

Re: [svg-developers] Data not available

2006-08-02 Thread Guy Morton
, at 2:18 AM, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: Guy, are you sure the links aren't local? eg the adobe one clearly isn't cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 2 Aug 2006, at 07:51, Guy Morton wrote: I'm hoping someone more experienced than I can chuck us a clue on this one. We have a user of our app

Re: [svg-developers] Fwd: FW: Fwd: forward this mail even if u dont read it! please

2006-07-19 Thread Guy Morton
Hey Ganesh Forwarding chain email hoaxes onto ANYONE is bad, but forwarding them onto a MAILING LIST is especially bad form and likely to get you removed from the mailing list in question. Well it would in my perfect world anyway. The Red Cross WILL NOT BE DONATING 10c to ANYONE just

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Firefox CPU usage

2006-07-18 Thread Guy Morton
Well yes, it uses 100% CPU on XP2 but also under Mac OS X. The app is pretty busy and does a lot of stuff, and it loops through a bunch of code once per second. Curiously, if viewed on its own in Firefox it uses slightly less CPU than if it's embedded in a html wrapper. Our app animates

Re: [svg-developers] Re: getSVGDocument works locally but not on server

2006-07-18 Thread Guy Morton
Also, consider firing your function via an onload event - that way it shouldn't be called until the SVG is loaded On 18/07/2006, at 11:36 PM, Martin Honnen wrote: --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, jack2wsx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: embed name='EmbedRPF' type='image/svg+xml'

[svg-developers] passing params to SVG

2006-07-10 Thread Guy Morton
Hi all Someone must have encountered this before (I hope so anyway). I'm trying to pass parameters to an SVG app. I can do this using URLs (eg /my.svg?param1=1param2=2) and this works fine, until you hit the IE 5.5 bug talked about as bug 3a on this page: http://

[svg-developers] Firefox on MacOSX, or is it Intel-related?

2006-07-03 Thread Guy Morton
I've just got myself a macbook pro running mac os x 10.7, and i downloaded firefox (the current version) and SVG is terrible in it. the bitmaps are all in a weird colour space and the text is outlined weirdly and so on. Is this just a problem with FF on a mac? Guy

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Mouse Cursor Handling

2006-06-29 Thread Guy Morton
and you can use the a element around other elements to make it happen in ASV. ugly, but it works. Guy Andreas Neumann wrote: yes, just use the cursor attribute. http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/interact.html#Cursors Cursors aren't implemented in Adobe SVG viewer version 3 but in all other

Re: [svg-developers] Trouble with hosting company (a bit off topic)

2006-06-28 Thread Guy Morton
This seems to indicate that they are hosting your DNS and using their control of that to prevent you from changing hosts - this is not legal as far as I am aware - your domain name belongs to you, not them, and you are entitled to change your DNS records as you see fit. This is all you need to

[svg-developers] Opera 9.0 SVG engine speed

2006-06-22 Thread Guy Morton
Has anyone got any feedback or comments regarding the speed of Opera's engine? I've noted that it appears to slow down proportionally to the amount of screen it needs to redraw. It seems quite a bit slower than FF and a lot slower than ASV. Where is the bottleneck? Can we do anything to

Re: [svg-developers] preserving F11 'full screen' functionality across browsers

2006-06-18 Thread Guy Morton
why not use embed? it seems to work fine in firefox and IE/ASV. I set it to use 99.9% for width and height and haven't seen any issues. Guy Lance Dyas wrote: krugerboy1971 wrote: This seems to work nicely across all implementations - the only problem is that in Firefox and Opera 9,

Re: [svg-developers] including external svg files

2006-06-16 Thread Guy Morton
FF won't load external SVG files in this way. It's a limitation with their implementation at the moment, as I understand it. Alex wrote: Hello, I have anothr question. I need to dynamically generate SVG image, and it should include other svg images within. I used image tag to attempt to

[svg-developers] Internationalisation

2006-06-13 Thread Guy Morton
Are there any gotchas to look out for in using multi-byte languages in SVG? Guy Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Home is just a click away.  Make Yahoo! your home page now. http://us.click.yahoo.com/DHchtC/3FxNAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM

Re: [svg-developers] Re: SVG detection code

2006-05-10 Thread Guy Morton
@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton guy@ wrote: Anyone got some good detection code that is free to use? Preferably detects ASV and FF support if available. Guy - To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Good SVG progress in Opera 9

2006-05-09 Thread Guy Morton
Hi Andreas When I first open my URL in opera, opera dies - ie it just quits and closes, no error message. When I open it again, it doesn't die but it also doesn't show any of my app, and I can see the error console, from which I've gleaned the error I've reported. It may well be that ctmNode

[svg-developers] SVG detection code

2006-05-09 Thread Guy Morton
Anyone got some good detection code that is free to use? Preferably detects ASV and FF support if available. Guy Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Protect your PC from spy ware with award winning anti spy technology. It's free.

Re: [svg-developers] Re: SVG detection code

2006-05-09 Thread Guy Morton
an intermediate page with a sample SVG file. This problem will go away if all browsers support SVG natively. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Guy Morton guy@ wrote: Anyone got some good detection code that is free to use? Preferably detects ASV and FF support

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Good SVG progress in Opera 9

2006-05-08 Thread Guy Morton
Opera crashes on my SVG app. I'm using the carto mapApp lib and it appears to take exception to this line svgPoint = svgPoint.matrixTransform(matrix.inverse()); It says message: Statement on line 71: Could not convert undefined or null to object Any ideas anyone? Guy Jim Ley wrote:

Re: [svg-developers] Re: error SVG view

2006-04-28 Thread Guy Morton
It could also be that the server is not sending the correct mime-type headers for your content, so the browser doesn't know what it is... Guy Samuel Dagan wrote: Hi Andre, Welcome to the group! If you are using Internet Explorer, it looks like, in win98 and win2000 you did not install ASV

Re: [svg-developers] Displaying SVG in Firefox

2006-04-28 Thread Guy Morton
In the past when FF has told me this it was right, my file was not well-formed xml. If you really think it's wrong, try parsing it in another application and see what it says. Guy Darrel Yoon wrote: XML Parsing Error: not well-formed --- it shows me this error. I don't know what's the

Re: [Attachment] Re: [svg-developers] Displaying SVG in Firefox

2006-04-28 Thread Guy Morton
Is there anything we can do to prevent this email echo every time we post to the list? I'm guessing it indicates that a [EMAIL PROTECTED] has signed up to the list, but mail to their address is bouncing. Is there a list admin here who can deal? Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ÄãºÃ£º

Re: [svg-developers] image onload

2006-04-27 Thread Guy Morton
try setting the onload from in javascript - that's what i'm attempting and she no work. David Dailey wrote: At 09:04 PM 4/26/2006, Guy wrote: i'm trying to access the onload event on an image element. H... I was baffled as to why this shouldn't work, so I tried the

Re: [svg-developers] Inlining of image/bitmap data?

2006-04-27 Thread Guy Morton
Hi Justin, This is possible - don't despair. :-) Image data can be embedded as base64 encoded data. I don't have an example handy unfortunately. Maybe someone else will be able to post more info. Guy Justin Clift wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm coding

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