{"id":908,"date":"2010-06-24T16:24:26","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2010-06-24T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T16:24:26","slug":"ie9-no-longer-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/24\/ie9-no-longer-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"IE9: No longer failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/svg.svgz\">[clipart]<\/object>Ok, after getting IE9 preview 3 installed last night, I was able to update my <a href=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/svg-support.php\">SVG scorechart<\/a>.  I'm pleased to say that I would now unequivocally classify IE9 as a browser that supports SVG.  Supporting gradients, patterns, masking, clipping and more actually gained them quite a few points. <\/p>\n<p>I'm also pleased to see that they support conditional processing (the &#60;switch&#62; element) so you can see at a rough glance what feature strings they claim to support by accessing <a href=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/svgtest.svg\">this page<\/a> I made years ago.  Not a bad feature set for first time out! Kudos to the IE team!<\/p>\n<p>And they support &#60;canvas&#62; too!<\/p>\n<p>In my brief look at IE9 while running through the SVG tests, I would say their biggest areas to improve on before final release are text (especially text selection) and DOM.  Though <a href=\"http:\/\/a.deveria.com\/\">Alexis<\/a> assures me that they do pass quite a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/svgtorture.googlecode.com\/svn\/trunk\/automated\/test.html\">SVG torture tests<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Hey, now that we have all major browsers supporting basic SVG rendering, it's really time to ramp up the effort on <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/svgtorture\/\">SVG Torture Tests<\/a> to ensure DOM coverage and corner cases.  We are looking for someone to lead this activity in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\/IG\/\">SVG Interest Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I would love to have <a href=\"http:\/\/svg-edit.googlecode.com\/\">SVG-edit<\/a> working in IE9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[clipart]Ok, after getting IE9 preview 3 installed last night, I was able to update my SVG scorechart. I&#8217;m pleased to say that I would now unequivocally classify IE9 as a browser that supports SVG. Supporting gradients, patterns, masking, clipping and more actually gained them quite a few points. I&#8217;m also pleased to see that they [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,46,11,28],"tags":[175,198],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-software","category-svg","category-technology","category-web","tag-ie9","tag-svg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}