[RESOLVED] Is anyone successfully using SVG with MSIE?

dalecosp

function charts ($day=null) {
   echo "<div id='maingraph'><img src='graph2wks.php?day=$day' alt='SVG Graphics Graphing Image' />";

graph2wks.php has the following:

header("content-type:image/svg");
$my_graph->renderDirect( 920, 300, 'line_chart.svg' );

Looks great in FF, as it supports SVG. I've seen claims of support for SVG in late-model MSIE browsers, but I can't seem to get it working. Do I need another strategy?

dalecosp

Resolving my own thread here ... all we care about, I think, is IE v9 or greater. OBJECT tags work instead of IMG tags, and you need to explicitly set width/height attributes on the OBJECT.

Fixed!

Ashley_Sheridan

There are plugins for older IE versions that allow it to display SVG, but as they are handled via a plugin, it's not a simple thing to manipulate them locally in the DOM.

bradgrafelman

... and if you're expecting your users to install something, you might as well just make it at least a halfway-decent browser, not a plugin for a crappy one. 😉

Ashley_Sheridan

bradgrafelman;11018553 wrote:
... and if you're expecting your users to install something, you might as well just make it at least a halfway-decent browser, not a plugin for a crappy one. 😉

That's true, but sometimes it's easier to convince management/IT dept/et al to install a plugin for an "approved" browser than a different browser. I'd not recommend using IE to anyone, but when needs must... :-/

dalecosp

This is an Intranet solution for a very limited audience, some of which can't be expected to do anything browserish without a little help at times. We'll be OK with it. AFAIK, no DOM manipulation required ... yet 😉

Weedpacket

For even poorer choices of browser, would an acceptable compromise be to rasterise the SVG and serve it as, say, a PNG? I see PHPClasses has an svg2png script, if you're willing to install inkscape; a CLI converter would probably be more appropriate.

dalecosp

I'd read about using Inkscape, or, alternatively, convert (from Imagemagick ... more likely available on BSD) or one other similar program.

I'll have to wait & see though; I don't think anyone using < IE9 will be on this page. And there's a rumor that all of our XP systems in other "departments" will be upgraded before too much longer (is IS about time, right?)

johanafm

Nah, if I had any kind of influence I'd tell every windows based IT-department to upgrade to windows XP (spefically to before the windows update which silently removed EMS support). Moreover, being able to choose between both Firefox and Chrome, they wouldn't even have to suffer from IE8. Thus, such a platform would certainly represent the unbiased peak of windows evolution!

dalecosp;11018599 wrote:
too much longer

is that the same as "soon (tm)"?

dalecosp

johanafm;11018931 wrote:
is that the same as "soon (tm)"?

For most values of "soon(tm)", yes. Or, in FreeBSD, "Real Soon Now(tm)". 😃

Incidentally, the "XP systems in other departments will be upgraded" means ... new hardware running whatever is installed on it. So I'm sure they'll be on the anti-pinnacle of Windows 7 or even Windows 8. (Oh, my ... RE, RO from Microsoft? The world WILL end soon). 😃