VK wrote:
Does anyone knows a reputable comment on the EOLAS beserk in
application to imported SVG / VML graphics?
I'm guessing that means, has anyone had any problems with scripting
SVG in Internet Explorer after installing the active-x patch that
resulted from the EOLAS ruling?
Say if I have a SVG graphics in the DOM tree and I script it onload (so
it starts blinking/shrinking/whatever) is it an EOLAS violation?
The EOLAS patent patch affects activeX components and user
interaction with them. If you are loading your SVG via an activeX
component (say, the Adobe SVG viewer), your scripts will work, but the
user will have to click once or press the spacebar to "activate" the
component. You aren't "violating" anything, you can't "violate"
anything - that's the point of the patch.
If you have SVG elements as part of the DOM, I've no idea what will
happen as I've no experience of rendering SVG this way.
One change I have noticed with IE after the patch is that it will not
render SVG in the adobe viewer activex if the source file does not have
the extension ".svg" or ".svgx" - it completely ignores the mimetype,
so if you (like us) are generating your svg server-side, you have to
have your server-side script end in .svg (and set up your server to
process script in these files)
