[Clipart] Re : [Inkscape-devel] Firefox corrupts svg files !

[Ivan Louette]

Thanks for your reply !

As you say probably not a bug but to my sense certainly an usability issue.

Thanks also about your off topic comment. But I don't know how I could precise 
an xlink namespace in FeImage filters when it must be precised by the person who 
uses the filter. Of course this isn't correct for displaying in a browser but 
this file is done to be parsed by Inkscape and as you said it works (However I 
don't have problems to open it in 0.48.01 and 0.48 devel 9936 on kubuntu 10.04).

Thanks again,
ivan




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De : ~suv <suv-sf at users.sourceforge.net>
À : Ivan Louette <ivan_louette at yahoo.fr>
Cc : Inkscape-devel at lists.sourceforge.net; clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
Envoyé le : Sam 11 décembre 2010, 12h 30min 21s
Objet : Re: [Inkscape-devel] Firefox corrupts svg files !

[ resending to the list this time ]

On 11/12/10 12:03, Ivan Louette wrote:

> Some time ago I placed some svg filters files on OpenClipart and more
> recently I heard from users that they didn't work despite all my tests
> were positive. Yesterday I discovered that following the way you take to
> download them they work or not. The problem seems to be specific to
> Firefox and doesn't occur with other browsers (tried with Safari, Opera
> and Chrome).
> 
> Here are the address of the two files :
> 
> The first one is an Inkscape template which activates filters for
> background images or objects :
> 
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/92749
> 
> This second one contains color filters decicated to work on background
> object or images (place any shape on top of a picture and apply the
> filters to this shape) :
> 
> http://www.openclipart.org/detail/92977
> 
> Here is the problem :
> 
>     - When you click on the "Download SVG" button on the OpenClipart
> page it opens the svg in Firefox. Then, if you save this SVG file
> displayed in Firefox and try to work with it in Inkscape it doesn't work
> because Firefox changed something in the file.

In my experience (Firefox 3.6 on OS X 10.5.8) Firefox only modifies the
content of SVG files (e.g. replacing hex color definitions by 'rgb()'
values) if you save the SVG as 'Web page (complete)' instead of 'Web
page (SVG only)'. Don't forget to check when using 'File > Save Page
As…', because Inkscape remembers the last used setting (thus overriding
the correct mime-type sent by the server by respecting the user's choice).

AFAICT, if the file type in the 'Save Page As…' hasn't been changed
manually, Firefox uses the correct file type for SVG files and does
*not* modifiy the content in any way.

>     - If you right click on the "Download SVG" button and do "Save
> target as", then the file download unchanged on your disk and all works
> as expected.

Yes, because AFAIU the correct file type (as declared or delivered by
the web server) is used automatically.

> Could somebody send the bug to Firefox ?

Not sure this is really a bug in Firefox, maybe a usability issue?


<off-topic>
BTW - as commented in <http://www.openclipart.org/detail/90775> some of
your filter files don't 'open' in Inkscape (nor in Firefox) because they
are invalid SVG (no xlink namespace), though apparently this doesn't
prevent them from being parsed for the 'Filters' menu.

affects afaict:
<http://www.openclipart.org/detail/90775>
<http://www.openclipart.org/detail/92899>
<http://www.openclipart.org/detail/95053>
</off-topic>

hth, ~suv



      
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