312982 - burningpixel.com - asks me to download Adobe SVG viewer even though Firefox 1.5 supports SVG

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[djurberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sv-SE; rv:1.8b5) Gecko/20051006 Firefox/1.4.1

Firefox 1.5 is supposed to handle SVG. Whats up?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load page
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
get error message

Expected Results:  
show image (like IE does)

WTF is Zarro Boogs? (please do not answer the question, just replace it with a
proper message)

Comment 1

[Michael (GoodWill)]

We are not responsible for what adobe supports.

It seems that the browser check javascript is not well designed. 
http://burningpixel.com/js/svgcheck.js
So you get a popup.

The svg xml itself at http://burningpixel.com/SVG/svghome0.svg has two problems.
A) The author is not serving it up with correct mime type.
B) Its missing namespace declarations:

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" 
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"


Should be:

<svg id="main" width="570" height="320" viewBox="0 0 570 320" 
	preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" enableZoomAndPanControls="false" 
	shape-rendering="optimizeSpeed" visibility="visible"
	xmlns:a="http://www.adobe.com/svg10-extensions" a:timeline="independent"

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" 
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
	>

Instead of:

<svg id="main" width="570" height="320" viewBox="0 0 570 320" 
	preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" enableZoomAndPanControls="false" 
	shape-rendering="optimizeSpeed" visibility="visible"
	xmlns:a="http://www.adobe.com/svg10-extensions" a:timeline="independent"
	>

On the side note
Zarro Boogs = Zero Bugs for people with a sense of humor :)

Comment 2

[u63580]

As we now have built-in SVG, isn't their check also a bit daft - it doesn't see
if you can deisplay SVG in general, but only looks for one specific plugin.

TE Bug?

Comment 3

[Michael (GoodWill)]

What is TE ?

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

-> tech evang

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

jwatt says he tried to contact this site a while back and didn't get a response.

Comment 6

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

TE is Tech Evangelism (we contact sites and try to encourage them to correct
their bad content). Frankly I think that would be a waste of our very limited
resources. If people want to deliberately block out all SVG implementations
except Adobe's then more's fool them. Reporter, if you feel strongly about this
then please contact the site maintainer (Ron Lussier).

Comment 7

[Mike Taylor [:miketaylr]]

Apparently they've designed a page to work without the SVG plugin: http://burningpixel.com/svg/SVGsite20/SVGexp20.htm

Lovely stuff.