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On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:46:38 +0100, Invisible wrote:
> On 21/09/2010 04:42 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
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>>> 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.
True. :-) "Loaded" to me, though, implies "didn't melt the browser". :-)
> 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...
I don't know that all browsers support SVG, do they?
Jim
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