SVG and browsers

[Mr Initial Man]

Is .svg a reliable graphic to use when it comes to browser support? If not, can I convert SVG to a more reliable format? These graphics are simple diagrams.

[MrCoder]

print screen

[Mr Initial Man]

Um... Say what?

[drhowarddrfine]

PRINT SCREEN! Can't you read??!! Yeah, I don't know either. :)

SVG works in modern browsers like FF and Opera but not in IE as you could have figured. Don't know about the others but I think it does.

[drhowarddrfine]

SVG browser support (http://www.joma.org/images/upload_library/4/vol7/Lane/Browser.html) Apparently Adobe makes a SVG viewer that will work with IE but Adobe is dropping support for it next year. (http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html)

[potterd64]

I think what he meant was to take a screenshot of your charts and save them as a JPG instead of SVG. SVG isn't exactly reliable, since the plugin must be downloaded for it to work in IE.

I like SVG because it is relatively easy to add interactivity to your charts through javascript. I could do the same thing with Flash, but that is way too much overhead. My pages are only viewed within one company though, so I have more control over my users systems.

Your best bet is to probably print screen, paste into paint, and save as a JPG.

[Mr Initial Man]

I guess I'm better off doing my diagrams in paint and saving them as PNGs.

[potterd64]

You don't mean recreating them in paint do you? Just open the svg file in Firefox, hit print screen, open Paint, hit ctrl+v, crop out the chart and save that however you want.

[Taschen]

You don't mean recreating them in paint do you? Just open the svg file in Firefox, hit print screen, open Paint, hit ctrl+v, crop out the chart and save that however you want.

A touch over complicated methinks. "Save as" (works in Adobe, if by PAINT you mean Paint Shop pro I have no idea how that works) does it for me .

[potterd64]

No MS paint of course! But yeah your way is way better!