04.Dec.2001
Christian Hujer (ANF)
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Adobe SVG Viewer for Unix
Since a couple of days Adobe is offering the
SVG Viewer for downlaod on the page for
unsupported versions
as version 3.0 beta 1 in English for Red Hat Linux 7.1 and Solaris 8.
The SVG Viewer is a web-browser plugin for displaying vector images of the XML
basing W3C standard
Scalable Vector Graphics
(see Heise's articel, German).
The Windows and Mac versions have an ActiveX interface for the Internet Explorer and a Netscape
plugin interface for Netscape 4.x (and by this it is supposed to run with Konqueror and other
browsers supporting the Netscape interface at 100%). Contrary to that the Linux version has
a Mozilla interface and does not support Netscape's plugin architecture which is poorly
documented, anyway.
In a first try this plugin could not be used under SuSE Linux 7.2 with
Mozilla 0.9.5 RPM, it was not recognized, but Mozilla 0.9.5 and the plugin
still are beta versions. For the final versions a better cooperation of both
may be expected.
With the Adobe SVG Viewer available for Linux and Solaris the popularity and
use of SVG might increase very much.
Of course the Linux port is available as binary only unfortuantely, meaning that
it mainly contains of .so files (libraries) compiled for x86 Linux. That is, though
there is a x86 Linux port now, an Amiga port is as far away as ever. Even the
efforts of Mozilla.org are promising more remedy.
(ps) (Translation: mj)
[News message: 04. Dec. 2001, 02:54] [Comments: 0]
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