Posted by Brian Cryer on 09/21/06 12:08

"Andy Dingley" <dingbat@codesmiths.com> wrote in message
news:1158832121.755518.295940@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> Andrew wrote:
>> Does anybody have some ideas about this?
>
> Best way is to use SVG. Works beautifully, but there's a chunky
> learning curve. One day I plan to write some export filters for some of
> the genealogy tools.
>
> To see what can be done with pure HTML tools though, read Scott
> McCloud's old comics site and read the source code.

Much as I am a fan of SVG (I really am, I use it a lot), I'm aware that
support for it in browsers isn't good. I know Firefox is supposed to support
it natively, but IE users have to download a plug-in in order to view SVG.
The Adobe SVG viewer was popular, but Adobe are pulling it from the website
come the end of the year (presumably because now they have bought Flash they
don't need a rival technology).

Also, and back on topic, is there any evidence that search engines (i.e.
google) will actually read svg? I'm certain that you won't find an svg file
being returned in the search results. I think that requirement was implied
in the original post.
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian

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