On 21/09/2010 04:42 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:

>> This may, uh, *melt* your web browser. (I suggest you don't try "view
>> source" either...)
>
> Loaded just fine here in Chrome.  Nice pic. :-)

Oh, it *loaded*. I mean, it took 25 seconds to load, but it did do it 
eventually. (Ate quite a bit of CPU power too...) Getting the page to 
repaint was even slower.

I found one website that used SVG for the background. Unfortunately that 
means scrolling slows to a crawl. And it wasn't exactly a complex 
background.

I wanted to see if I could use SVG to generate gradient backgrounds. But 
unfortunately, it seems this is currently unsupported. You'd *think* you 
could just make your image tags and CSS point to SVG files instead of 
PNG or JPEG, but apparently that doesn't work. You have to insert the 
XML into your XHTML (with the correct 3-page xmlns references and so 
forth) or it doesn't work.

I'm *so* not bothering...

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