Broken Link

Local User localuser.localhost at gmail.com
Fri Oct 20 14:04:11 UTC 2006


Hi Don,

I tried it in Opera and it failed as well.  So I guess the next logical
question is why have a link on a page which fails in all the major linux
browsers?

Would it not be better to make the link an ftp download and give
instructions on how to view it?


~lu

On 10/20/06, Don Scorgie <DonScorgie at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 06:07 -0700, Local User wrote:
> > There seems to be a broken link at
> >
> >
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Official?action=show&redirect=UbuntuArtwork
> >
> > Half way down the page there is a link to SVG format under Ubuntu
> > Palette.  When I click on the link I get an XML parsing error.
>
> It's not actually a broken link.  The link points to an SVG file (which
> is XML).  Alas, firefox / epiphany don't recognise the file as SVG, and
> try parsing the XML.  This fails (as SVG parsing isn't firefox's strong
> point) and so an "XML Parsing Error" is displayed.  Try right-clicking
> the link and selecting "save link as".  The result can be opened using
> you're favourite image manipulation / viewing program.
>
> Thanks
> Don
>
>
>
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