Hi Alan,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alan Horkan</b> <<a href="mailto:horkana@maths.tcd.ie">horkana@maths.tcd.ie</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>When it (Firefox) was proposed previously I objected and pointed out that<br>SVG support in Firefox was vapourware and no stable release with SVG<br>support existed (this may have finally changed). I'm quite annoyed at how
<br>the Mozilla foundation have dragged their feet when it comes to supporting<br>standards like MNG and SVG choosing other priorities instead. Opera has<br>had SVG support for longer and the recently released Seamonkey
1.0 also<br>includes SVG support (Seamonkey 1.0 also known as Mozilla Suite 1.8) so it<br>would be unfair to give Firefox any more attention than the browsers which<br>doing a good of supporting SVG and promoting Open Standards.
</blockquote><div><br> I think that the priorities that Firefox has set were pretty important. There have been tools to view SVG in Firefox from at least 0.9, so making them native is less important, IMHO, than, say, making the browser stable and not a memory hog. And, AFAIK, Opera still isn't open source - it's free as in pizza now, but not open source. And since SeaMonkey just went gold within the past week, and Firefox has been stable for a while, and only getting more so, I'd say there are plenty of reasons to give Firefox more attention than Opera or SeaMonkey.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Others are probably not as hostile to Firefox as I am but I opened this<br>post with a recommendation to add links to the Wiki because that is
<br>probably the fairest way for us to to recommend web browsers.</blockquote></div><br>I'm not only not hostile to Firefox, I'm protective of it. Firefox is very important to the open source movement, the open standards movement, and the Internet in general.
<br><br>That all being said, I still stand by my orginial statement that the Open Clip Art Library has little, if any, to do with web browsers, and since Mozilla hasn't contributed directly to OCAL, there's little reason to promote it on the main page.
<br><br>-- <br>- Chad Smith<br><a href="http://www.gimpshop.net/">http://www.gimpshop.net/</a> <br>Because everyone loves free software!