[26586] in Athena Bugs
Re: SVG support?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Thu Sep 8 15:31:27 2005
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From: Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:29:13 -0400
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On 6-Sep-05, at 11:21 AM, Eric Jonas wrote:
> I noticed that on a recent debian apt-get upgrade, the 1.0.6 version
> of firefox it pulled down had enabled native SVG rendering at
> build-time. SVG is the w3c standard vector graphics format which is
> free and open. Would it be possible to turn on this option in the next
> firefox build for athena?
It looks like enabling SVG support would be non-trivial; it requires a
rendering back-end, of which cairo seems to be the best choice. But
cairo would apparently need to be added to the release, and firefox
does not seem to build against the latest version (1.0). I will try to
investigate this further, but most likely it will not be feasible to do
this
for the current version of firefox.
Bob
