Comments on: Inline vs. Referenced SVG

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:42:51 +0000

@Jacques: In thinking about this this morning, the <desc> or <title> element contents would be displayed (as HTML text) in browsers that don’t support inline SVG – however unfortunately also the same thing applies with <text> elements, offering a potentially confusing experience…

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:51:15 +0000

Jacques,

I was primarily talking about fallback content that would automatically be displayed in browsers (without forcing the users to have to look at the source).

Jeff

By: Jacques Distler

Jacques Distler — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:26:10 +0000

5. No fallback mechanism available for inline images

False.

The svg:desc element provides a somewhat functional fallback mechanism.

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:35:11 +0000

johnny – as you say, this may be a benefit of SVG, but it doesn’t say anything about inline or referenced.

By: johnnysaucepn

johnnysaucepn — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:13:49 +0000

Actually, although it’s not a benefit of inline SVG as such, I can see it being useful if you need to store images in a database for dynamic retrieval – much easier to store and retrieve as text than to write a separate script to retrieve the binary data and force it into the correct MIME type.

By: ResearchWizard

ResearchWizard — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:35:26 +0000

“he has to go to one of his previous WHATWG entries, search through the source, copy & paste the SVG code”

Or just use a cool web browser – e.g. with Opera you can simply put the code to a note and with one right click and navigating to this note you did the job