ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 7, Issue 342

[jelkner at divmod.com]

I have been eagerly awaiting the day when svg has matured and is supported natively in firefox by default.  At that point it will be possible to develop free educational materials that can only be developed at present using the non-free flash.  There are so many great things that could be done through the web to enhance teaching and learning if we had such a tool.

jeff elkner
open book project <http://ibiblio.org/obp>

> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:32:44 +0100
> From: Sam Tygier <samtygier at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: firefox svg
> To: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Tony Arnold wrote:
> > Ashley,
> > On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 15:08 +1000, ashley maher wrote:
> >>So given I need svg in firefox on ubuntu what is the easiest way of 
> >>obtaining an ubuntu package with an ability to turn on svg natively in 
> >>firefox?
> > 
> > 
> > I guess the glib answer is to compile it yourself, but you may not be
> > comfortable with doing that.
> 
> its a nasty thing to compile. you have to downlaod the entire mozilla source tree. then follow a non standard cofigure and make. i am not trying to put anyone off, but its not for newbies. see http://www.mozilla.org/build/
> 
> sam