Hi John, I agree that Opera 9.5 is currently the best browser based SVG implementation. But Webkit/Safari and Firefox are catching up quickly.
Firefox has fallen a bit behind, but FF3 is a huge improvement over FF2. The main lacking features are SVG fonts support and SMIL animation. Negative numbers are supported in all SVG viewers/webbrowsers, however, as others pointed out. I use negative numbers all the time in my mapping applications. Others have pointed out that you should avoid the trailing blanks and your examples should work fine in all of the 4 browsers: Opera, Firefox, Webkit/Safari, Google Chrome. Andreas --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, John Delacour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've been developing a drawing initially using Gran Paradiso (Firefox > latest build) until I discovered how far superior the latest Opera is > for SVG and continued viewing the file (generated by a Perl script) > in Opera. > > I now discover that neither Firefox nor Safari accept negative > coordinates and deal with these as zeros. For example the rectagle > below is shown 12 units higher (I use a matrix to convert to > Cartesian coordinates) than I intend. Only Opera behaves as I want. > > <rect x="42" y="-12 " width="5.75" height="112" fill="burlywood" /> > > Are negative coordinates illegal? Firefox and Safari report no error > but just ignore the "-12". > > Kudos to the Opera people anyway. It is so much easier to work with. > In the Perl script I have an option to open the file in Opera once it > is written or simply to activate Opera. If I choose the latter > option I then refresh the page and all my scaling and view options in > Opera are preserved. This means I can work on a part of the drawing > at any scale I want without having to scroll and zoom to that part > every time I edit the file. > > JD > ------------------------------------ ----- 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
