Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: axiomui graphics

[Martin Rubey]

Kai Kaminski writes:
 > Hi Martin!
 > 
 > > I only have Mozilla (Konqueror doesn't work at all, as I reported earlier
 > > on), and rendering the svg files from your website results in something
 > > that looks quite like your plots, just using ASCII art...

 > So they look a very different from the PNG files, I suppose? 

yes.

 > Do you like the PNG plots or don't you like them either.

The plots themselves are good. But in png I assume there is no panning,
zooming, rotating, ...

 > The reason I ask is that it might be reasonably easy to send PNG to the
 > browser instead or provide that as an option at least. In fact PNG support
 > would be nice anyway, since then we could display Axiom plots in Emacs.

yes.

 > > Don't know what to do, but I think I'll just wait until Konqueror is 
 > > supported,
 > > since I don't want to use Mozilla anyway. I was using
 > >
 > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030630
 > > Adobe SVG Viewer plug-in version 3.01x88

 > There are two potential problems I can think of. First of all SVG support is
 > still somewhat shaky in Mozilla and Firefox, so you might have to use a
 > development build. I wouldn't recommend this, though, since Firefox 1.5 is
 > due in a few days. The second problem is that with some Mozilla/Firefox
 > builds one has to enable SVG support first. To do that, load about:config
 > and look for an option like svg_enabled and set it to true.

There is no such option as svg_enabled in my about:config. I suppose that my
Mozilla is too old. Note however, that it does "work". Only the quality is
*very* low.

My Konqueror is 3.1.4.

Martin