This page uses HTML5 and an embedded Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) diagram, and acts as a test. From this point on (27th December 2011) my plan is to use HTML5 with embedded SVG as the default format for posts, and therefore if you use a browser (or feed reader) that does not support this, you will miss out.
You should see an elegant diagram below. If you not, it probably means that you are not using a modern, standards-compliant HTML5 Browser.
I have tested this page on the following:
- A Macbook Pro running OS X 10.7.2 (Lion) with Safari 5.1.2, Chrome 16.0.912.63, Firefox 8.0.1, Opera 11.6
- A Mac Pro running OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) with the same browsers.
- An iPad running iOS 5.0.1 (in Safari, naturally)
- An iPhone running iOS 5.0.1 (again, Safari, of course)
- A Sony Vaio running Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 9
- A prehistoric Dell latitude laptop running Chrome 16 and Firefox 9
and everything looks good. It does *not* work with Internet Explorer 8, but then, what does? It also does not work with many older versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera. So this is a good time to upgrade. I don't know which Android or Linux growers it works with, but I would guess it will work with some.
I imagine the diagrams will not show up in most feed readers, and that is unfortunate, but I think this is a time to push forward, so that is what I am doing.
Among the other marvellous benefits of SVG, it is scalable (just like the S says), which means that if you zoom the browser (generally command-plus on macs, and control-plus on Windows) the diagram will scale too, without looking terrible. Wonder of wonders.
This page itself looks ok for me, but the summary in Google Reader had only the tag-stripped contents:
ReplyDeletefi fluidinfo aeaa654c- 35b0- 4b00- 866b- c7deda8959c4 book/author="Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton and Matthew L. Sands" book/bnb/contributors={"Leighton, Robert B.", "Sands, Matthew L. (Matthew Linzee)"} book/bnb/creator="Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988." book/bnb/id={"GBA901036", "GBA645628"} book/dewey={"530"} book/isbn={"0805390499", "0805390669"} book/r=0.893236319082 book/source={"BNBrdfdc16.xml-201011150#096269", "BNBrdfdc14.xml-201011150#132062"} book/title="The Feynman lectures on physics" fluiddb/about="book:the feynman lectures on physics (richard p feynman; robert b leighton; m..."
Yes, that's a problem. It doesn't show in my feed reader either. I guess Google Reader would need (at least) to serve it as either HTML5 or XHTML (as application/xml), and it doesn't. I can't see an option for that either.
ReplyDeleteI guess I think it's worth it to get all the benefits of SVG (even though I read almost everything in Feed Readers myself), but I guess you might not agree...