Hi Jerry,
At http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/font_effects_JM_IE9.jpg you can see what it looks like in IE9 – yet one more interpretation. I think part of this has to do with word-spacing and line height. The only way I could get text to scale properly to a viewBox (and hence to scale in a device-independent way) for most of the examples at http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/text/ was to set textLength and use lengthAdjust="spacingAndGlyphs" Firefox, seems to be lagging quite behind in its support of the advanced text handling features of SVG1.1 which is why, I gather, they are recommending that support for text, at least in the form of SVG fonts be dropped from SVG2.0, in the name of progress, I suppose. It remains to be seen if all other aspects of advanced text handling will be dropped from SVG. Part of it, I gather, is that the HTML CSS crowd have discovered how cool SVG effects are and they want to apply them to HTML even if it means trashing SVG in the process. I suppose some, but not all members of the SVG WG might have reason to disagree with my pessimism. In your play with fonts, you might enjoy this subset of the open font Symbola, available as both glyphs and paths at http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/SymbolaB1.svg -- the entire emoji Unicode plus some emojiPlus characters are there. In Firefox, you will see radically different versions of things using the same version of Firefox in the same OS, but on different machines since it seems intent on pulling from installed system fonts rather than relying on path data; The score card for browsers support of SVG fonts can be seen at http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/message/65934 Many of the SVG WG seem not to know this information, so please don’t tell them ;) It will be our secret. David From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:svg-developers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jerrold Maddox Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 2:04 PM To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [svg-developers] What am I overlooking? David Try this site too. Problems with both using unicode characters and svg. Different on all four the browsers - Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari http://clarify.site44.com/smallgraphics.html Jerry On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:43 PM, David Dailey ddai...@zoominternet.net <mailto:ddailey%40zoominternet.net> >wrote: > ** > > > It was fascinating to me to see how inconsistently Jerry’s example > rendered across browsers. IE9 did something still different and what I saw > in the four browsers Jerry reported on, my observations were quite > different than his. > > Would we not expect SVG in HTML to render more consistently across > browsers? If so would that be an SVG WG thing or an HTML5 WG thing? > > 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 Erik Dahlstrom > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 12:23 PM > To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com <mailto:svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com> > Subject: Re: [svg-developers] What am I overlooking? > > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:51:22 +0100, Jerrold Maddox jx...@psu.edu > <mailto:jxm22%40psu.edu> > wrote: > > > The is site using svg that works in Chrome and Safari, but half the lower > > series is cut off in Firefox and Opera. > > Can anyone suggest a way to fix it? > > > > http://clarify.site44.com/opacity.html > > > > Thanks. > > Jerry > > Judging by the content you should add: viewBox="0 0 500 550". Otherwise > you might get some parts of the svg clipped no matter what (depends on the > resolved size of the CSS box for the svg). > > Alternatively you could set width and height to the same absolute values > (500x550px). > > Or you could add some CSS: > html, body { height: 100% } > > My recommendation would be to define the coordinate system with viewBox. > > Cheers > -- > Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software > Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group > Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [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! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
