Hi, ASV runs on almost all Linux browsers. Often, it requires a manual install, but it works. But it did not go through quaility testing at Adobe and there are a few issues. The biggest problem is, that HTML to SVG and vice versa communication is broken. Some feautures like sound are not existing at all. ASV on Linux is almost useless for debuggin purposes. You don't get any error reporting and on some browsers not even alert() is working. But there are workarounds like browserEval()
Looking forward and given the fact that Adobe is quiet in SVG lands, i really recommend looking at alternatives. Opera9 is already very useable and developing at a fast pace. The opera SVG developers are also very responsive when it comes to fixing bugs. And its truly multiplatform. The only problems I had with Opera was with some of my bigger files. It gets very slow if you have many elements in the DOM (>10000 elements or so). But feature wise it is already quit complete. I was able to run complex SVG applications within Opera, such as http://www.carto.net/williams/yosemite/ Firefox might also be an option. FF2 will have some minor, but useful improvements: text on path, additional DOM methods, such as .getTotalLength(), .getPointAtLength(), but it is still missing many features. Expect major improvements in FF3. Nightly builds of FF3 are already available for testing. Performance wise I personally had problems with FF on Linux. While it worked ok in Windows, it was very slow on Linux, but people told that this was due to some problems in my X-Server configuration, so this is probably possible to fix. Tim Rowley, the main SVG developer in MozillaSVG at IBM works on Linux, so I am pretty sure it should work reasonable if one has the right X-Server settings. I also expect major SVG improvements in qt and KDE/Konqueror. These people collaborate with Apple/Safari. From what I saw in Safari, the implementation was fast, but significant features are still missing. I don't know when Safari/Konqueror will be ready, SVG wise. Several months, a year? I strongly recommend looking at ASV alternatives. Adobe was very quiet around SVG and the future seems to be native SVG implementations, without the use of a plugin. If you write your code such that it works in Apache Batik, Opera, Firefox it will also work in ASV and other upcoming conformant SVG viewers/browsers. Good luck with your project, Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, "run2bmi21" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got a small Windows-based application that uses MS IE, ASV plug- > in, a lot of JavaScript, a lot of SVG, and a little HTML to hold it > all. Soon, I'd like to present a demo to a group that runs Linux on > laptops. They hate Windows. What's a sensible approach to getting my > little app running under Linux? > > I guess ideally I'd be looking for something like an MS IE that runs > on Linux (does such a thing exist?) complete with ASV plug-in. That > seems to me to be the easiest port. But something tells me it's not > going to be this easy. I'm probably looking at an IE to Firefox > conversion, right? If that's true, I'm hoping that I can still use > ASV, since I'm pretty sure some features of my app depend upon it. If > there's absolutely no ASV for Linux, then I guess I'm stuck. > > Any help much appreciated. Thanks. > ----- 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/
