Last modified: 2006-07-28 00:43:57 UTC
The image page of an SVG image should show a link to the full-size PNG version, for browsers that can't display SVG; most browsers with no plugins except Firefox. I discovered this amazingly simple and overlooked deficiency of the file format when trying to set an SVG image as my desktop background. Even in Firefox it won't work (it doesn't handle SVG the same as a raster image). The image link should look something like this: <u>Example.svg</u> (<u>PNG</u>) (9KB, MIME type: image/svg) rather than just this: <u>Example.svg</u> (9KB, MIME type: image/svg) The PNG link would increase accessibility greatly for MSIE as well as most other browsers. Also, Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects render SVG differently than Windows browsers, as it runs on Linux servers, so this allows a wiki user to quickly and easily check the rendering of the vectorial image. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Invitatious">w:en:User:Invitatious</a> on Wikipedia.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6834 ***