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1. stelt 7.5.08 / 12am

   Put it in the SVG Wiki viewer matrix
2. tiagocardoso 7.5.08 / 1am

   I’ll work on it thks
3. Greg Dove 7.23.08 / 10am

   If you’re not already using Degrafa, you may find it to be a useful library for rendering SVG in Flex.
   http://degrafa.com/
   http://code.google.com/p/degrafa/
4. tiagocardoso 7.23.08 / 10am

   Greg,

   The problem with SVG is to parse it correctly. Degrafa has it own syntax. And Degrafa lacks on some features present (and that we use) on SVG.

   Nevertheless, it is a great project and we did look at its source at a point. Ricardo (working on the development) even send the project a note regarding a possible infinite loop on spline approximation.

   Thanks for the info
5. Greg Dove 7.23.08 / 10am

   This was just for your information, Degrafa is a library and not an ‘application’ or viewer so yes, it does still require some coding to instantiate Degrafa objects from the data obtained from the SVG file, but that is relatively easy – and you can do it from actionscript instead of using mxml – which is why I thought it may help reduce duplicated effort for your project.
   I have worked on the SVG path parsing for Degrafa to fix a few edge case errors as well as optimization…perhaps even the one that Ricardo reported, so I know what you mean by “has its glitches and bugs” – there are a couple I can still see in the tiger image above. The Degrafa code is open and so you may find some recent code fixes for your own rendering glitches.
   Please feel free to contact me directly to let me know what SVG features Degrafa lacked that influenced your decision not to use it. We are always interested in feedback like that so we can work to improve Degrafa. And thanks again for the bug report from your team… those are always welcome!
6. tiagocardoso 7.23.08 / 11am

   Degrafa was just a sub-part of our core Lib. Things like Text rendering, SVG paths (that can have spline and polyline on the same node) and the need to have much control over the drawn elements (for manipulation proposes) were the main reasons to do it ourself. Nevertheless, we did saw Degrafa code and will probably see it again in future as is has many things in common with our lib and can be of great help.
   Whenever we see that we can contribute, we will.
   You guys have done a great job!
7. B 8.13.08 / 5pm

   will the SVG rotated text can be displayed exactly in the FLASH ??????
8. tiagocardoso 8.13.08 / 6pm

   If it doesn’t now.. it will probably in the first release.
9. Brad Neuberg 8.25.08 / 8pm

   Wow, this is really cool! I’m very interested in learning more about this; is it open source? Please feel free to email me at the address given. I work with Google and am investigating the state of cross-browser, SVG shim libraries.

   Best,
   Brad Neuberg
   http://codinginparadise.org
10. Ajaxian » The State of SVG Browser Support + Using Flash for SVG in Internet Explorer 8.28.08 / 11am

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14. Hung 12.21.08 / 3am

    Hi,

    I’m a little confused. My browser is showing the draws using Adobe Flash player??? is it supposed to be the way to view svg files???

    Thanks
    Hung
15. tiagocardoso 1.2.09 / 11pm

    Hi Hung,

    SVG is not still cross-browser (IE on it’s best), so, using flash, that is cross-browser is a good solution.

    On top of that, SVG is just a standard for vector graphics, so, having a lib on actioscript that allow you to import them and manipulate them is quite nice to do all sorts of graphic application that can recure to outside graphic libraries
16. Pedro Sacramento 7.30.09 / 3pm

    SVGWeb has some great samples of cross-browser SVG support, including svg ANIMATION! There are samples that can either be rendered under flash or using browser’s native svg support.

    A great project:
    http://code.google.com/p/svgweb

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