Re: SVG within file with extension .xhtml/.html

Holger Jeromin <[email protected]> Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:16:06 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.svg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Otto Wyss schrieb am 06.11.2010 10:53:
> Robert Longson wrote:
>> SeaMonkey 2.0.8 does not support html5 so you can't embed SVG into
>> html using markup. Your options are either to use the DOM to add SVG
> Thanks a lot. Can you give me any hint how to change the code using the DOM so I 
> can work on the code in my environment? The SVG code isn't from me so I'm not 
> very familiar but I'd like to extend it so one day it may become usable for OSM.

short description for the task in javascript:

Get the svg data via XMLHttpRequest. Put the responseText into the
DOMParser https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOMParser (supported in all
SVG capable browsers (incl ie9)). appendChild the content into your website.

> Besides is there a usefull tutorial about SVG? I'd rather don't like to dig into 
> W3C documents, they are more or less unreadable.

Aggreed, but a must see is:
http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/resources/svgprimer.html

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best regards
Holger