Hi Richard, Unfortunately Mozilla Firefox 1.5 can't load gzip compressed SVG locally (that needs to be fixed), but it can load it from a server when served with the correct HTTP headers. Here are a bunch of random links that should demonstrate that for you:
http://www.w3.org/2003/12/svg-xml2003/index.svgz http://www.bjoernsworld.de/temp/svg-wg-appreciation-day.svgz http://www.mizzou.edu/~njseef/mygraph.svgz<http://www.mizzou.edu/%7Enjseef/mygraph.svgz> http://www.graphviz.org/cgi-bin/webdot/webdot/graphs/directed/world.dot.dot.svgz http://popolon.org/gblog2/wp-content/upload/fleur_en_cours.svgz http://www.websitedev.de/svg/vxhtml11.svgz http://www.ba.infn.it/~zito/xml/prova.svgz<http://www.ba.infn.it/%7Ezito/xml/prova.svgz> http://www.roitsystems.com/r2v/2005-11-24/Captcha.svg.svgz and, err, not for the young and innocent :-) http://faemalia.net/ArtWorx/SVG/Captivation-Of-A-Youthful-Soul.svgz Regards, Jonathan On 12/19/05, Richard Pearman < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >From: Jeff Schiller > To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 8:36 AM > Subject: [svg-developers] Re: Does Firefox 1.5 support SVGZ? > > You've been told many times in this mailing list that Firefox DOES > INDEED SUPPORT svgz.< > > This is one of many things (mostly not relating to SVG) which I've been > told > but have yet to see any evidence for. > > > Basically the web server needs to tell the > browser that the content type needs unzipping.< > > I know my hosting company seems to be having trouble setting the server > correctly (perhaps you can get cross with them rather than me). However > I'd > have thought that Firefox should still be able to display SVGZ files > stored > on my local computer but I get the same sort of error messages as I do > when > I look at my website on line. Why is this? I have yet to find any SVGZ > files on the internet which Firefox can display. Do you know of any? > > I very much hope that Firefox does support SVGZ files and I will be able > to > get people looking at the SVGZ files on my website using Firefox in the > near > future. However I seems that I'm saying that Firefox doesn't support SVGZ > > (or at best there's some issue which I'm not aware of) and pressenting > evidence to that effect while you're just saying that it does and not > pressenting any evidence. > > Richard Pearman http://www.pixelpalaces.com/ > The next stage in the evolution of web comics: > http://www.onlinecomics.net/pages/details/listing.php?comicID=4415 > > > > > > ----- > 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 > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WpTY2A/izNLAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- 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 on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
