DenkZEIT

As a vivid Opera-user and avantgardist (at least web-wise?) I’ve recently installed Adobe’s SVG-plugin in version 6.0pre. It’s a bit tricky to get the plugin running with Opera (Lucky me not as tricky as with Firebird – see below.): one has to copy two files into Opera’s plugins-directory.

I’ve played around with SVG a bit and noticed that animations won’t work.

I’ve played around a bit more, installing version 3 (the one preceding 6.0pre) over v6. Deinstalling. Installing again. Moving files and deleting them again.

Opera crashed on certain setups.

I noticed that this correlates to which version is installed ‘officially’ on the system. This is an issue despite the two files that have to be copied. It appears to me that Opera will crash if v6 is installed but finds v3 files in the plugins-directory, e.g..

After realizing that I checked what version of the plugin works best and found that with v3 animations do work. Whereas with v6 they don’t.

I’ll stick with v3 for that matter.

I still can’t get the keyboard to connect with the plugin, though.

There is more information on both versions of the plugin to be found in the SVG-wiki.

SVG with Firefox

The Mozilla/Firefox-community is in the process of developing a native SVG implementation. I.e. the possibility to display SVG-graphics is coded directly into the browser. As of now this solution is quite beta. Amongst other things it does not support declarative animation.

The Adobe plugin in version 3 stopped working. So if you are using Mozilla or Firefox in newer verions you’ll have to use the 6.0pre version of the plugin (or you’ll have to go for the SVG-branch of Mozilla).

Conclusion

Version 3 of the plugin is recommended:

• It’s much faster than v6 – at least in Opera.
• Animations work in Opera.
• It’s a release version. V6 might be instable.

Get version 3 of the plugin if you are not using Firefox. Firefox-users have to download version 6.