SVG support in Mac browsers

[Kevin Callahan]

On Oct 18, 2006, at 4:01 PM, Karl Kuehn wrote:

> On Oct 18, 2006, at 6:41 PM, Kevin Callahan wrote:
>
>> A friend (math teacher) is looking for SVG support in Mac browsers --
>> Adobe doesn't support the modern browsers via a plugin.  What's  
>> the status on built-in support on Safari, Firefox etc, for Mac ?
>
> 	This really should have been a question that you researched before  
> posting.

yeah

i found out about the WebKit support as early as Dec 2005 ..
sorry for the post

k


> Google searches for "svg safari" and "svg firefox" both got solid  
> answers in the first few hits. The one for Safari might have seemed  
> a little old, but it is still valid. You could also have looked up  
> svg on wikipedia and gotten a collected answer.
>
> 	With that being said... The answer is that FireFox has had some  
> support since version 1.5, and that SVG support is still in the  
> "nightlies" for Safari, meaning that it is in active development  
> but not in the shipping product. And as an added bonus: OmniWeb 5.5  
> uses one of those "nightlies" and so has some support for SVG.
>
> 	Now, what "some support" means, well you are going to actually  
> have to do the work to figure out if it will work for the things  
> you are trying to do.
>
> --
> 		Karl Kuehn
> 			larkost at softhome.net