Yes, thanks Wade. Opera running SVG does run on older Droids. I knew that but forgot.
Cheers David From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:svg-developers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of G. Wade Johnson Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 11:34 PM To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [svg-developers] Issues with iOS and Android On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:12:28 -0400 "David Dailey" <ddai...@zoominternet.net <mailto:ddailey%40zoominternet.net> > wrote: > This isn't a very complete answer, not having either of the relevant > devices, but a couple of observations may be worthwhile: > > > > 1. Androids purchased last summer, like mine, apparently will > not run SVG. I didn't realize that Droids became obsolete so quickly, > but I'm told one needs the Ice Cream Sandwich OS to run SVG and that > my machine will never do that. (I asked at the store, before > purchasing, btw.) To extend this a little further. The Stock browser on older Android phones will not display SVG. However, I have gotten SVG to display on my Nexus One in one of the Opera browsers and in a beta of the Firefox mobile browser about a year ago. G. Wade > 2. Some of the web-interface goodies like (mousedown, mouseup, > drag, click) are rather hi-jacked on the i-phone by the interface. I > remember trying to run some of my web apps on an i-phone I had a > couple of years ago, and to my horror, it appeared that Apple > misunderstood the advice I offered them in 1986 about how to create > multi-touch devices (they poo-pooed the idea at the time, and now, it > appears they claim to own it!). What you're seeing could be an "Apple > thing" with their whole user-interface thingy. Attempts to reconcile > application-relevant events across platforms are, as I understand it, > underway. > > 3. Your page works fine in Windows for Opera, Firefox, Safari > and Chrome, but not for IE9. I suspect getting it to work in IE9 > would be prerequisite for a Windows phone. It is usually not very > difficult to get code working in IE9, and what you're doing is pretty > straightforward, so I think it should be within reach. > > 4. It looks like you have many more lines of code than would be > required for what you're doing: cloning and then putting in motion > with script. > > 5. If you ran the animations with SMIL and the object creation > through script, you could probably reduce the code by a substantial > fraction. If you're not targeting Windows, anyhow, then SMIL oughta > be there - at least the primitive stuff is supported by Safari and > Chrome. There are also, I gather, some hundreds of millions of > devices out there that run SMIL but not script, so if the cloning > were not so important as the animation (and the DOM overloading isn't > too big an issue) then you might actually get better performance out > of SMIL on some devices, particularly if they were running Opera > mobile. > > Some of these points can be argued half a dozen ways apiece, and they > are presented more as possibilities to consider than as beliefs or > truths. > > > > Cheers > > David > > > > From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com <mailto:svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com> > [mailto:svg-developers@yahoogroups.com <mailto:svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of Brennan > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:52 PM > To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com <mailto:svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [svg-developers] Issues with iOS and Android > > > > > > Hullo! This is my first post here. > > I am just discovering SVG. I am particularly interested in > interactive SVG, using javaScript. > > I made a little demo based on code from carto:net, which works rather > nicely on PCs, but has some problems on mobile devices: > > http://bgay.monline.dk/clone.svg > > Android loads, but doesn't render the source code. You only see the > code in the browser window. Is this a MIME type issue? Or does > Android require SVG to be wrapped in HTML? > > iOS (iPad) loads and renders the file, but clicking on the 'button' > does nothing but spit out my console.log messages. I don't get the > nice moving 'clones' at all. Why? I've tried hunting for any > documentation about iOS limitations with SVG, but have found nothing. > > I don't have access to a windows phone 7 device, but I am assuming > in-browser SVG doesn't work on that system. Is that correct? > > Thanks in advance! > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works. -- Alan Perlis [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com -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: svg-developers-dig...@yahoogroups.com svg-developers-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: svg-developers-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! 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