We'll Call You: SVG: title, desc and text

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:

> We'll Call You: SVG: title, desc and text
>
> Thomas,
>
> Has a start on SVG been possible?

no - sorry...

> Providing the <title> content would be a great
demonstration!
>
> http://www.openicon.org
is an svg search engine in pre-alpha.
> It would be amazing if this could be created to work
with lynx as development 
> progresses.
>
> regards
>
> ~:"
>
>
> Jonathan Chetwynd
>
> j.chetwyndbtinternet.com
> http://www.openicon.org/

>
> +44 (0) 20 7978 1764
>
>
>>> it would be enormously helpful if lynx
recognised SVG as a filetype, 
>>> without an html wrapper.
>
> ie displayed appropriate content in the case where
someone navigated directly 
> to an SVG file rather than one embedded in html as an
image, the first step 
> is to provide the document title for SVG files:
>
> Opera for instance uses the title content in this
file:
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/
b/b7/Black-cloud.svg
> as a label for the window, and as the default text when
bookmarking.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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et
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On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:27:00PM +0100, Jonathan Chetwynd
wrote:
> Has a start on SVG been possible?

Does internal handling of SVG really make sense for a
_text_
(character cell) browser?

It seems to me it would be much wiser to use mime
functionality,
or any one of Lynx's own PRINTER, DOWNLOAD, VIEWER or
EXTERNAL defines,
to pass the content to an external application to interpret
and render.
Defining a local "proxy" is also a very nice
mechanism for handling
and/or preprocessing non-html content for Lynx.

While I haven't done much with SVG, mainly because it can't
be used
smoothly in xml by any browser yet, Lynx already handles any
text
portion of VML as well as MSIE or Safari, and much better
than Firefox.

> >> it would be enormously helpful if lynx
recognised SVG as a  
> filetype, without an html wrapper.

All you need to do is add a line to your mailcap file.

I really don't see how a SVG file is any different from a
Word *.doc
file or an Acrobat *.pdf file, both of which display well in
Lynx as
text files once converted by a helper application.

__Henry

  "Using Lynx is like wearing a really good pair of
shades: cuts out
   the glare and harmful UV (ultra-vanity), and you feel
so-o-o COOL."
                                         -- me, March 1999


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