Upcoming SVG support in Opera and a Wii suprise
Monday, 7. May 2007, 22:27:08
While it is probably well known within the SVG community (or not judging by the number of SVG sites that block Opera, and tell the user to download Firefox), there is maybe a lack of awareness in the web design community at large about just how many strides Opera has made in its SVG 1.1 support. As this test from Jeff Schiller states:
In roughly a year, the Opera browser went from being one of the least usable SVG implementations (no scripting/DOM support) to the best native implementation and achieved a higher score than the famed Adobe SVG Viewer
Opera has the best native SVG support of any browser on the market, and is only beat out by Batik 1.7 (great work guys) for the most compliant engine. Things don't stand still however, and I've already blogged previous about support for using SVG as a background image and list image in CSS in internal builds of Opera Kestrel. This is not the only improvements however. Kestrel will also support:
- Support for using SVG files in the image element
- SVG Tiny 1.2 vector-effect [Spec]
- SVG Tiny 1.2 navigation [Spec]
- SVG Tiny 1.2 handler [Spec]
- Speed improvements and optimisations
- Many general bug fixes of our support of animations, text, SVG DOM methods and filters
Not only that, but Kestrel is still in active development, and there will be further support for SVG added before it goes final. But for much of this one doesn't have to wait until Kestrel goes into public beta. This is because The Internet Channel for Wii includes some of the modules from the Kestrel branch of our core rendering engine. This means that some of our improvements, both to CSS3 selectors and SVG 1.1 are already out there, sitting next to your TV, ready to be checked out. Bare in mind that the Wii is limited to two fonts, so visual results may vary. Go check it out and see what you think…
New to SVG, or want to check out some techniques? Go check out our tutorials on Dev.Opera.
WIDGETIZE
xErath # 7. May 2007, 23:41
Zajec # 8. May 2007, 10:31
dstorey # 8. May 2007, 11:19
Zajec # 8. May 2007, 11:36
quiris # 8. May 2007, 12:01
The text looks awfully on my 9.20, because of "opacity: 0.7" rule
Any way to turn on antialiasing for these cases?
dstorey # 8. May 2007, 14:14
I'm in the process of clearing the bugs once i find time from fixing bugs in other sites
FataL # 8. May 2007, 14:35
Andrew Gregory # 8. May 2007, 14:44
Plus a whole lot of other things I hadn't thought of. Cool.
However, I'm starting to get a little jealous at all these Wii people...
quiris # 9. May 2007, 05:08
Originally posted by dstorey:
And it's completely unreadable: http://files.myopera.com/quiris/screens/screen-dstorey.png
Darken # 9. May 2007, 08:18
Same problem under Windows XP SP2 + Opera 9.20.
haavard # 9. May 2007, 08:27
Anonymous # 9. May 2007, 10:24
Which platform are you on? In my 9.2, it doesn't have that problem. The text is just slighlty thinner.
quiris # 9. May 2007, 10:39
Originally posted by Dstorey:
Windows XP Pro. Opera 9.20.
Anonymous # 9. May 2007, 12:08
I can reproduce on Windows. It doesn't happen on Mac, so must be a platform specific bug. I'll look into fixing it and reporting a bug report if one doesn't exist already
Darken # 10. May 2007, 03:46
SVG!? Euh, no.
Anonymous # 12. May 2007, 16:51
the svg as a background image is a little buggy. it renders fine but tends to crash the wii on a refresh.
but it handles the :nth-of-type(odd) selector like a champ. (from http://files.myopera.com/dstorey/experiments/itunesTable.html)
cant wait for kestrel.
Anonymous # 22. May 2007, 09:36
Perhaps a bit off-topic but I just re-read this blog entry and realised that it actually hinted at something I've been wondering about: Font support on the wii!
From looking at the css files of the Shop chanell it seems that atleast this font is installed on the system "Wii NTLG PGothic JPN Regular". But it seems that Dstorey has more information...
"Bare in mind that the Wii is limited to two fonts, so visual results may vary"
@Dstorey - What does this comment mean? That there is a maximum of two fonts per document or that the wii only comes with two fonts installed?
Which leads us to the question: Is there any spefication on what fonts are avaliable to the opera browser on the wii?
dstorey # 22. May 2007, 12:16
Anonymous # 22. May 2007, 21:01
Great! A monospaced font is exactly what I need! I'm doing som pretty cool tests now with svg and javascript on the wii. And I need as much info as I can get my hands on. Looking forward to some developer documentation.
Thnx!
(Btw I wrote the post above, but obviously i missed to fill in my user name)
dantesoft # 17. December 2008, 10:27
I especially need to know what fonts are available for sure on the Mobile and Wii platforms.