212391 - Use Batik as a plugin for SVG

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: SVG, enhancement)

Description

[Etienne Juliot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
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On one side : the support of SVG inside Mozilla take a long time, and it's
really not ready to complete support. 
On the other side : an OpenSource project named Batik support very well the SVG
standard.

SVG support become very important for a modern browser, and Batik has some
advantages that Mozilla can uses.
And integration can surely be easy and quick to do (but just for external SVG
file (not for SVG combined with html)).

Batik is an Apache's project : http://xml.apache.org/batik/
It's write with Java and have an APL license. It's a very good project used by
many other software.

Batik can be integrated as a pluglet (the plugin API for Java component :
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/java-plugins/ ).

Some engineers of Sun has already try to do it, but nothing move since a long
time and source has been release. But perhaps project can re-born (like a
phoenix :) ).

Here is an interesting old discussion about Batik inside Mozilla :
http://kaluta.ilog.fr/batik/mlists/batik-dev/archives/msg01001.html

An example of SVGViewer with Batik and pluglet is at :
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/blackwood/downloads/install-trigger.html
(but it's with an old version of Mozilla and Batik).

I think that Mozilla team can help and work with the Batik team to integrate
Batik as an easy-install plugin (or as an XPI).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
- SVG support inside Mozilla is not completed and not ready.
- Batik has a good support of SVG
- Batik cannot be easily integrate as plugin
- Adobe SVG support for its plugin desn't work with Mozilla 1.0+

Expected Results:  
- easy integration of Batik inside Mozilla
- complete support of SVG in Mozilla as a plugin

Comment 1

[Alex Fritze]

The SVG Component is about *native* SVG support, not plugins -> marking invalid.

> integration can surely be easy and quick to do
lol ;-)