[Clipart] Firefox 1.0 Linux on Gentoo has SVG plugin installed by default!!!!!!!!

[Jon Phillips]

Hello all,

I just opened an svg file by accident in Firefox 1.0 just to find that
it displayed properly in my browser!!! Upon closer inspection I thought
that I had setup svg to display in inkview, but no, I looked in the
MozillaFirefox plugin folder and found these:


-rw-r--r--  1 root root  5632 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.a
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  1368 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.la
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  8536 Nov 18 04:20 libmozsvgdec.so

Thus, could you all check to see if the Mozilla SVG is provided with
your Firefox 1.0 install?

I am ecstatic with joy if this is installed by default on all Firefox
1.0 browsers, because that means we now have penetration into the world
with SVG.

I have just ruled out that I built my Gentoo install of Firefox with
SVG, as it is not an option. Thus, the gentoo ebuild builds the SVG
plugin by default.

Hmmm...if you all could report if you have the SVG plugin on your
install, it would be great to know to promote via our website.

In the end, we have to consider that our app's usefulness will scale
dramatically if SVG is adopted by more user's. As of now we are using
more as a meta-format not much unlike Illustrator using AI as a default
format for creating illustrations. With viewing of SVG files on the web,
so much more will be possible.

Jon




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