diese Seite auf deutsch Here you can check if your browser does support all the web standards needed for my site.
The first column of the table below shows one smiling face giving a thumbs up for each technology supported.
In those rows where you don't see a smiley, you shold follow the link in column two to read how the respective format is used by me and what lacking browser support would mean.
Also the table provides links to other websites with additional information and to lists of supporting software.
| Test | Format | more about it | lists of software | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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PNG | Portable Network Graphics | more info on PNG | browsers with PNG support |
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JFIF | JPEG File Interchange Format | more info on JPEG/JFIF | found no list |
| SVG | Scalable Vector Graphics | more info on SVG | SVG viewers at svgi.org and in the SVG wiki | SMIL 2.0 | Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language | more info on SMIL | SMIL players |
| SVGT fonts | ||||
| SVGT fonts in external file | SMIL animation in SVG | |||
Images on my website are provided as PNG, JFIF or SVG documents; depending on which format is most suitable. Only in few exceptional cases rendered versions of SVG images are provided alternatively to be displayed by browsers lacking SVG support.
If you don't see a smiley in one of these rows, you really should provide yourself with complying software.
I've created only one SMIL document so far. (Not counting the test smiley.) Unlike the test in the table that document is not embedded but linked in. So click here for the real test.
You can also view the same contents as SVG documents. I did not reproduce the timing and animation of the original SMIL document in SVG (although it is possible to do that) and the images best matching your screen resolution are not chosen automatically in SVG but you can read the story without having a SMIL player.
By using SVG fonts typefaces can be saved inside an SVG document. I use this feature in some graphic tales. If your SVG viewer does not support SVG fonts, it would still display the text using a viewer specific default font.
A font in one SVG file can be referenced and used in multiple other SVG files, but not all SVG viewers with font support do also support external SVG fonts.
On Windows 98 Firefox and some other browsers might even fail to render text in SVG documents at all. If you encounter this problem and try to work around it by installing a plugin, you need to know that the browser's native SVG support needs to be deactivated as can be read in the Mozilla SVG Project FAQ.
As a rule I start animating SVGs only after having a static image which is sufficiently meaningful. Therefore support for animated SVG is not a necessety for viewing this site. But some of what you'd miss is worth a look. For example the pseudo 3d animation of the image titled Graves.