James Graham wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Forgive me if this is a simple and obvious question. I note that all
current browsers (except IE, of course) implement SVG rendering (to a
better or worse degree). I'd like to be able to drop SVG images into
an HTML page as easily as I can a JPEG or PNG. I read over the
recently-released HTML5 draft and couldn't work out how I'd do this.
What would the HTML to do this look like? What's the equivalent of
<IMG SRC="foo.jpg"> for foo.svg?
In browsers which support it <img src="foo.svg"> will work (with certain
limitations for security reasons). If you want to embed svg inline like
you can with XHTML, that's not currently supported, although several
people have expressed an interest in changing that. However there are
significant technical barriers to overcome at the syntax/parser level.
Supporting <img src="foo.svg"> is a requirement of SVG 1.1 [1]
" If the user agent includes an HTML or XHTML viewing capability or can apply
CSS/XSL styling properties to XML documents, then a Conforming SVG Viewer
*must* support resources of MIME type "image/svg+xml" wherever raster image
external resources can be used, such as in the HTML or XHTML 'img' element and
in CSS/XSL properties that can refer to raster image resources (e.g.,
'background-image') "
[1]
http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-SVG11-20030114/conform.html#ConformingSVGViewers
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Mathieu 'p01' HENRI
JavaScript developer, Opera Software ASA
