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Saturday, October 01, 2005

Firefox 1.5 and SVG

We can expect new version of Firefox very soon and we can download first beta now. Firefox 1.5 will support SVG vector graphics. Firefox 1.5 Beta1 renders SVG quite good, but it still doesn't render .svgz files, it is slow sometimes and it doesn't support specification without problems :-(. What about benefits? It uses Cairo library ... so, we can look forward at hardware acceleration of rendering in the future. I also found very good pages about SVG in HTML containing many examples, tutorials, etc.

Conclusion: download first beta of Firefox 1.5, download Inkscape and create some svg file, read this short tutorial and have a fun! Bye bye, evil flash! *hopefully* :-)

Download Firefox 1.5: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/ to see this SVG image.

1 Comments:

  • Hi,

    yes svg in Firefox 1.5 is great, but i testing the same web page with svg picture with IE and FIrefox, and IE used adobe plugins looks greater than the same pitcure. With Firefox i had aliasing on picture...

    lo

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:27 PM  

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