PixelPalaces - VIEWING SVG FILES

This is based on Webkit (like Safari) and should have similar capabilities. Hot zones are invisible but receive events. Some filters work but objects seem to be invisible if it can't handel their filters. Displays some fonts larger than most other viewers. onend events don't seem to work (so javascript not trigured at the end of SMIL animations). Some SVGZ files don't work in images. Seems to have some issues with use elements. Can be zoomed by Ctrl+Mousewheel at which point scroll bars appear, allowing you to scroll. However it only shows what's inside the original viewBox so it's problematic with picture which are larger than the initial view. Can be paned by Shift+drag but this is awkward as you drag up to down, down to up, right to right and left to go left. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to return to the orriginal view.

Orientation

Works really well.

Title Page

• Fonts to large.
• Details on dragon's wing missing

Part I

• Frame 1 - When Dactura rolled is over, it trigures the animation and moves to the next frame but the number 1 or the nav bar remains white and the number 2 remains black.
• Frame 6 - water missing from pool.
• Frame 7 - Dawn's bikini top too small and in the wrong place. Background missing. Dawn's hot zone does appear (it's done in a different way from most of them.
• Frame 10 - No name on user icon.
• Frame 11 - Fades in and out but does not move on to next frame.
• Frame 13 - Fades in and out but does not move on to next frame. No text on badges.
• Frame 15 - Background missing. Onclick doesn't advance to navigation frame.

Part II

• Frame 1 - Background and dragon's wing membrain missing.
• Frames 4-6 - Background missing.
• Frame 7 - Dose not move to next frame after animation.
• Frame 12 - Dose not move to next frame after animation.
• Frame 13 - Various backgrounds missing.

Part III

• Frame 1 - Background missing.
• Frame 5 - Fades when clicked but doesn't move to next frame.
• Frame 7-8 - Background missing.
• Frame 9 - Background missing and frame 8 still visible behind it.
• Frame 14 - Beartrix dissapears very quickly.
• Frame 26 - Tiffy's hot zone (the first one) doesn't recieve events.

Part IV

• Frame 6 - Sea surface missing.
• Frame 8 - Beartrix is only visible when her hot zone is pressent.
• Frame 12 - Beartrix is only visible when her hot zone is pressent.
• Frame 18 - Beartrix is only visible when her hot zone is pressent.
• Frame 21-22 - Beartrix is only visible when her hot zone is pressent.
• Frame 24 - Wall (outside door) missing.

Part V

Seems to interfere with other programs on your computer causing them to run slowly or crash.

• Frame 7 - Beartrix is only visible when her hot zone is pressent.
• Frame 9 - Most of kangaroo missing (can only see it's eye and the grass it's eating).
• Frame 14 - Tree canopy missing.
• Frames 18-20 - Tiffy's hair net missing (these three frames tend to give "Aw snap, something went wrong" message but not instantly).
• Frame 21 - Wall outside door and bananas missing.
• Frame 22 - Velociraptor's body missing.
• Frame 23 - Back wall and window missing.
• Frame 25 - Blur on breast missing.
• Frame 26 - Difficult to make speach bubble dissapear.
• Frame 28-29 - Prone to "Aw snap, something went wrong" message.
• Frame 31 - Dimorph's freckles missing.
• Frame 32 - Satalite missing
• Frame33 - Buchannon's picture (image referencing SVGZ file) too small.
• Frame 34 - Much of the frame is obscured by a corupted version of the start frame.

Part VI

Seems to make other programs run slowly.

• Frame 3 - Hill missing (only shadows visible).
• Frame 4 - Beartrix missing.
• Frame 8 - Water sand and grassing missing.
• Frames 11-13 - text on user icon missing (unfortunate as it's a clue or red herring).
• Frame 17 - Beartrix missing.
• Frame 20 - Dawn's background missing. Beartrix dissapears when the speach bubble does.
li>Frame 24 - dimorph's freckles (a pattern) missing.
• Frame 25 - Beartrix dissapears when the speach bubble does.
• Frame 26 - dimorph's freckles (a pattern) missing.
• Frame 28 - Stag, classroom background and guest icon (image referencing SVGZ) don't appear and there's a screwed up version of the help bubble and nav bar obscuring most the picture. Doesn't advance to next frame when clicked. Nav bar works very slowly.
• Frame 29 - Same as 28, should be an SMIL animation but it doesn't work.
• Frame 30 - Same as 28. Buchannon (image element referencing SVGZ file) appears too small.

Part VII

• Frames 4-7 (minor variations on the same picture) - Words, "White Dove Conflict Resolution" don't appaer.
• Frame 8 - Words, "Superheroes of Marsailes", background (sand and sea) and dragon's body missing. Doesn't advance when clicked. Links to mod database don't work.
• Frame 10 - Background (wall of control room) missing.
• Frame 15-17 - The first hot zone doesn't receive events. Eratic behaviour of nav bar.
• Frame 18 - Have a large messed up version of the help bubble and nav bar obscuring much of the picuter. Stag, classroom and user icon don't appear. Buchannon (image referencing SVGZ file) doesn't appear. Hot zones (or at least the first one) don't work. Nav bar responds slowly.
• Frame 23 - Much of Temple Mount missing and it really doesn't look right without filters working properly.
• Frame 32 - Hernandez's picture (image referencing SVGZ file) is too small and incorrectly clipped (I think the clipping path is correct but has not compensated for the incorrect image size).
• Frame 33 - Lake and mountains missing. Causes "Aw snap something went wrong" message.
• Frame 34 - Background (water) missing.
• Frame 37 - Can't see, just get "Aw snap something went wrong" message.
• Frame 38 - Background missing.
• Frame 40 - txt file opens in new tab (if you click on the computer). This isn't a problem!
• Frame 65 - Engine's hot zone doesn't work (or text missing).

Part VIII

• Frame 10 - Water missing.
• Frame 13 - Water missing.
• Frame 14 - No text on Noreiga's badge.
• Frame 15 - You really need pan and zoom for this frame which is awkard in Google Chrome. Hill and bushes, velocirapter's body missing.
• Frame 16 - See frame 14.
• Frame 17-20 - Flashing lines doesn't appear.
• Frame 25 - Vegetation and dragon missing.
• Frame 27 - Hill missing.
• Frame 28 - Need to pan this upwards a bit.
• Frame 30-31 - Get an SMIL when clicked and doesn't advance.
• Frame 32 Doesn't advance when clicked.
• Frame 46, 48, 50 - Wall missing (all the same with differnt bubbles).
• Frame 54 - Name missing from user icon. Burka missing.
• Frame 55 - Burka missing.
• Frame 56 - Bushes and burka missing.
• Frame 58 - Need to pan this. Grass and water missing.
• Frames 59-60 - Dog's body missing.
• Frame 61-64 - Dragon's body and wing membrains missing.
• Frame 65 - Dragon's body and wing membrains and water missing.
• Frame 66 - Background missing.
• Frame 68 - Person missing (but their hot zone's visible).
• Frame 69 - Background missing.
• Frame 70 - Bushes and water missing.
• Frame 71-72 - Background missing.

Part XI

• Frame 1 - Ground and hills missing. Bubbles don't dissappear when they should.
• Frame 3 - Most the details on Earth missing making it look very odd. Upon clicking it, get an SMIL warning. Upon clicking it's OK button, it progresses to Frame 4 with another SMIL warning.
• Frame 4 - Upon clicking the OK button on the SMIL warning, it progresses to frame 5 with another SMIL warning.
• Frame 5 - Upon clicking the OK button on the SMIL warning, it progreeses to the navigation page, bypassing frame 6.
• Frame 6 - Works fine but you only seem able to get it by clicking the number 6 on the nav bar or the back button when on the navigation page.

It's difficult finding SVG information on the website - it just claims that this has been improved. As far as we've been able to determine this does not support SMIL animation. The animated hot zone filter doesn't appears but receives events. It has limited filter support. It has a bizare inability to display local SVGZ files. Doesn't seem to display SVGZ files in image elements but there's no "missing image" icon. Its JavaScript is considerably faster than Opera's.

Orientation

Works well apart from things noted elsewhere.

Book 1 title page

The filter in the background dosen't look right at all (it should look like space with stars).

Part I

• Frame 1 - Tiffy animation doesn't appear but rolling over Dactura does change to next frame. However this only happens once and then it's impossible to get Frame 1 back.
• Frame 2 - clicking on it doesn' progress to next frame, need to use nav bar. Frame not removed when you change to another frame.
• Frame 6 - get an SMIL warning when started and another if you repeatedly mouse over Esther after her last bubble, she doesn't dissapear.
• Frame 10 - Text conversation doesn't appear. Stag's vision appears but doesn't fade in and fade out.
• Frame 11 - appears with SMIL warning.
• Frame 12 - hot zone does not appear and roll over doesn't work.
• Frame 13 - appears but with SMIL warning.
• Frame 15 - sky filter works reasonably well but not the one for the ground.
• Navigation frame - main page and archives icons don't appear but their links work.

Part II

• Frame 7 - SMIL warning.
• Frame 12 - SMIL warning.
• Navigation frame - main page and archives icons don't appear but their links work.

Part III

• Frame 2 (and less noticably on Frame 3) - blur filters clipped awkwardly.
• Frame 5 - SMIL warning. Need to use nav bar to progress to next frame.
• Frame 14 - rather messy because zoom doesn't work. SMIL warning.
• Frame 16 - Sun glases transparent (ghostly - they should be solid black).
• Frame 26 - Tiffy's hot zone (the first in the frame) doesn't work.
• Navigation frame - main page and archives icons don't appear but their links work.

Part IV

Fairly good, the SMIL warnings don't prevent you from following the plot.

• Frames 8, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 21, 22 - SMIL warnings related to the filter on Beartrix, which should be removed when the hot zone filter is applied to her. However it doesn't appear at all.
• Frame - Snakes dissapear when Eugenic is moused over but Beartrix doesn't appear.
• Frame 25 - Blank but hot zone works so the speach bubble appears. The rest is an SVGZ file in an image.

Part V

• Frame 3 - nothing appears but mouseover works making speach bubble appear.
• Frame 7 - SMIL warnings.
• Frame 23 - Gaps in the patten on the window.
• Frame 32 - Stag, classroom background and user icon (image referencing SVGZ file) don't appear but Stag's hot zone receives events. Space ship diagram almost invisible.
• Frame 33 - As frame 32 except Buchannon doesn't appear (image referencing SVGZ file). His hot zone recieves events.
• Navigation frame, DK logo and archives icon don't appear but links work.

Part VI

• Frame 3 - Stag, class background and user icon don't appear (image elements referencing SVGZ files). Stag's hot zone accepts events but doesn't appear.
• Frame 17 - SMIL warning, animated objects don't appear.
• Frame 20 - SMIL warnings.
• Frame 25 - SMIL warnings.
• Frame 27 - Tiffy's body and head missing (image referencing SVGZ).
• Frame 28 - Stag, classroom details and user icon don't appare (images referencing SVGZ). Does not progress to next frame when clicked (need to use nav bar.
• Frame 29 - As 28 but SMIL animation doesn't work.
• Frame 30 - As 28 but Buchannon (image referencing SVGZ) doesn't appear but his hot zone and accepts eventss.
• Navigation frame, DK logo and archives icon don't appear but links work.

Part VII

• Frame 3 - Tiffy's picture doesn't appear.
• Frame 4 - Writing about Conflict Resolution service missing (but its title appears).
• Frames 15 - Stag, classroom details and user icon (images referencing SVGZ files) don't appear. Fairy's hot zone (first one) doesn't recieve events.
• Frames 16-17 - zoom doesn't work (get SMIL warning message). Dactura's hot zone (first one) doesn't receive events).
• Frame 18 - Stag, classroom details, user icon and Buchannon (images referencing SVGZ files) don't appear.
• Frames 26, 28, 30 - zoom doesn't work and get SMIL warnings.
• Frame 32 - Hernandez's picture (image referencing SVGZ file) doesn't appear.
• Frame 34 - Water not visible.
• Navigation frame, DK logo and archives icon don't appear but links work.

Part VIII

Most hot zones don't appear or receive events.

• Frame 15 - Can't zoom or pan.
• Frame 17 - Lake doesn't appear and no flashing line.
• Frame 18 - SMIL animation warning and flashing line doesn't appear.
• Frame 19 - Flashing line doesn't appear.
• Frame 20 - Flashing line doesn't appear.
• Frame 28 - Can't zoom or pan.
• Frame 30 - Clicking on the frame gets an SMIL warning and doesn't advancework pressumably because this activates an animation.
• Frame 31 - SMIL warning. Clicking on frame doesn't advance, pressumably because it's supposed to be part of an animation.
• Frame 32 - SMIL warning. Clicking on frame doesn't advance, pressumably because it's supposed to be part of an animation.
• Frame 54 - No text on user icon.

Part XI

Frames 1-2 - Work well considering limitations of this browser.

Seems to support most SVG features. Even the colour changing filter works! Zoom now works. You can pan by Ctrl drag but it's very slow and eratic.

Seems to use a lot of memory, interactivity works slowly and causes other applications to work slowly if used at the same time. Rolling over the last hot zone twice to close it seems slow and unreliable.

Seems to have a problem with text that is rotated or on a path.

Supossed to support SVG files being used as images but doesn't allways work (e.g. toh6 frame 3 - there should be an SVG image of Stag in the lower left corner, you can see the filter where he should be). Parts of objects which extend beyond the edges of internal SVG elements ARE shown but are not removed when the internal SVG's display is turned to "none" (should make things invisible e.g. toh6 frame 3 the grey filtered shape should be confined to a big rectangle). Opacity sometimes gets set to 1 when filtered which makes some things look wrong (e.g. toh6 frame 4, Stag's left hand dissapears when he's filtered and in frame 22 Trista's nipples are far to prominant when she's filtered). Seems to need more memory than other viewers and can make other programs being used at the same time run slowly.

Orientation

Works perfectly

Title Page

Works perfectly

Part I

Generally works very well.

• Frame 10 - No name on user icon.
• Frame 11 - Mech wing not cropped by clipPath so a hidden part is visible.
• Frame 13 - Text missing of badges.

Part II

Works very well.

Part III

• Frame 1 - radialGradient on Buchannon's remote dissapears when his hot zone is pressent.
• Frame 5 - Trista's nipples are far too dark when her hot zone is pressent.
• Frame 7,8 - as frame 1
• Frame 26 - Tiffy's hot zone doesn't appare (the first one), therefore can't test others.

Part IV

Generally works very well.

Frame 8 - Stag's left hand seems to dissapear when his hot zone is active.

Part V

Generally works very well.

• Frame 7 Stag's left hand dissapears when his hot zone appears.
• Frame 9 Filter makes kangaroo's fur look out of focus.

Part VI

• Frame 3 - Hill extends byond the boundry of the internal svg and is not erased when the frame should no longer be visible.
• Frame 11-13 - No text on user icon.
• Frames 17&18 - Stag's left hand dissapears when his hot zone is visible.
• Frame 20 - some of Dawn's facial features are missing when her hot zone is active and she dissapears entirely when the hot zone is removed.
• Frame 22 - Trista's nipples far too prominant when her hot zone is active.
• Frame 29 - animation returns to initial state before changeing the inset image.
• Navigation frame - Archives icon does not appear.

Part VII

• Frame 17 - Stag and classroom background not removed when we move to next frame.
• Frame 33-34 - Lake water filter doesn't work.
• Frame 60 - bird person's hot zone is slow to react.
• Frame 62 - interactivity very slow.
• Navigation frame - Archives icon does not appear.

Part VIII

• Frame 10 - Water filter doesn't work.
• Frame 15 - It's better than with previous versions of Opera but the slow and clunky pan and zoom makes it very difficult to see all the bubbles in this frame.
• Frame 17-20 - flashing lines don't appear.
• Frame 22 - hot zones almost invisible but accept events.
• Frame 25 - Six's hot zone invisible but accept's events.
• Frame 26 - Dragon's wing filter doesn't work.
• Frame 46, 48, 50 - background filter not obvious (should produce stucco effect).
• Frame 52 - Text on user icon very hard to read.
• Frame 58 - Filters on grass, bushes and water don't work.
• Frame 62-64 - Dragon's body not cropped and not removed when frame changed. Filters on dragon and water don't work.
• Frame 65 - Filters on dragon don't work and sea filter doesn't work very well.
• Frame 70 - filters on plants and water don't work.
• Navigation frame - Archives icon does not appear.

Part XI

• Frame 1 - animation slow and jerky.
• Navigation page - Archive icon doesn't appear but it's link works.

Reasonable performance but still lacks SMIL and filters and a few text elements seem to be the wrong size. Animated hot zone filter appears as black shapes. Opens links with target attributes in the same window. The Standalone can't handle links to non-SVG files. Does display SVG's in image elements but doesn't get the dimentions right. The Windows Explorer plug-in produces thumbnails of SVG(Z) files in Windows Explorer.

I haven't tested the plug-in as there doesn't seem to be an easy way to switch back and fourth between it and the Adobe plug-in.

The Company developing this is having problems so it's future is looking uncertain particularly as the anouncement that IE 9 will have SVG support suggests that it will quickly become obsolete.

Part I

• Frame 1 - hot zone does not appear. Rolling over it results in warning that "Operation not supported by implimentation." Does not dissapear when you move on to other frames.
• Frame 10 - Stag's vision of a warewolf appears but doesn't fade in and out.
• Navigation page - only half of "Archives" icon appears.

Part II

• Frame 2 - only half of speaker appears and no hot zone.
• Navigation page - only half of "Archives" icon appears.

Part III

• Frame 5 - need nav bar to move to next frame.
• Frame 7 - hot zones displased slightly but their clipPaths aren't.
• Frame 8 - Buchannon's hot zone displaced, but not it's clipPath.
• Frame 9 - Stag's hot zone doesn't appear but it receives events.
• Frame 11 - Tiffy doesn't appear but her hot zone does.
• Frame 16 - mouseout doesn't work on Tiffy's hot zone.
• Frame 26 - Tiffy's hot zone (first one in frame) doesn't appear or receive events.
• Navigation page - only part of "Archives" icon appears.

Part IV

• Frame 18 - Tiffy's not zone doesn't appear but accepts events.
• Frame 25 - Only hot zone appears (the rest, apart from the bubble, is an image referencing an SVGZ file) and doesn't accept events. Displaying this frame seems to crash the viewer so it refuses to do anything else except closing down.
• Navigation page - only part of "Archives" icon appears.

Part V

• Frame 3 - Only hot zone appears and then the viewer refuses to do anything else except shutting down.
• Frame 20 - Only half of Tiffy's hair appears and her right arm isn't visible. The navbar doesn't appear.
• Frame 32 - Only parts of Stag appear (he's in an SVGZ file refeferenced by an image). The lines of the space ship diagram are very narrow and hard to see.
• Frame 33 - Refuses to do anything except close down.
• Frame 34 - Guest icon partly missing.
• Navigation page - only part of "Archives" icon appears.

Part VI

• Frame 3 - Parts of Stag's face (in an SVGZ file referenced by an image) missing.
• Frame 7 - Black, possibly because it has a filter over an image referencing a jpg file.
• Frame 11-13 - Name on user icon too small and the wrong font.
• Frame 16 and 19 - SMIL warning.
• Frame 20 - SMIL warning. Tiffy and Dawn incorrectly cropped.
• Frame 25 - 3 SMIL warnings.
• Frame 27 - Tiffly's face missing (image referencing SVGZ file).
• Frame 28 - parts of Stag's face (in an SVGZ file referenced by an image) missing.
• Frame 29 - generates error message and continues to display the previous frame.
• Frame 30 - File stops responding until being reloaded.
• Navigation page - only part of "Archives" icon appears.

Part VII

• Frame 3 - Tiffy's picture only partly visible.
• Frame 15 - Parts of Stag missing.
• Frame 16-17 zoom doesn't work with SMIL warning.
• Frame 18 - causes viewer to freez when Buchannon appears.
• Frames 26, 28, 30 - zoom doesn't work with SMIL warning.
• Frame 32 - Hernandez's picture doesn't appear and viewer freezes.
• Frame 40 - Opens Notepad to display txt file if you click on the computer (this is good but unexpected).
• Navigation page - only part of "Archives" icon appears.

Part VIII

• Frame 13-14 - hot zones not obvious but accepts events.
• Frame 15 - zoom out only displays a small part of this frame but zoom all displays all of it.
• Frame 17-20 - SMIL warnings. Flashing lines don't appear.
• Frame 30 - clicking just gives an SMIL warning instead of advancing to the next frame (you an use the nav bar).
• Frame 31-32 - clicking doesn't do anything (can use nav bar).
• Frame 34-36, 38, 40, 42, 44 - Trista's nighty has mysteriously turned magenta.

Based on Web Kit so should be very similar to Google Chrome. However Chrome now seems more ambitious. The animated filter appears black. Doesn't seem to support SVG fonts (so writing in fancy fonts tends not to appear). Going to another page from an SVG and then going back doesn't restart the SVG but returns to the state where you left it (useful). Filters don't seem to work. Some fonts displayed larger than in other viewers. onend events in SMIL don't seem to work. Can work slowly and slow down other applications when viewing large SVG files. Zoomed by Ctrl+mousewheel but if you zoom out, only the contents of the original viewBox is maintained. Pans by Shitf + drag but the up and down is reversed (drag left to go left, right to go right, up to go down and down to go up) which is confusing. Doesn't seem to have an "original view" function.

Orientation

Works very well.

Book 1 title page

Text not displayed correctly

Part I

Arrows on navigation bar and navigation page don't change colour when moused over but onclicks and links work.

• Frame 1 - hot zone does not appear but animation activated when moused over. Number 1 or nav bar does not turn black and number 2 does not turn white.
• Frame 7 - Dawn's bikini top in the wrong place.
• Frame 10 - Name on user icon not displayed.
• Frame 11 - Does not move on to next frame at end of animation.
• Frame 13 - No text on badges. Does not move on to next frame at end of animation.

Part II

Arrows on navigation bar and navigation page don't change colour when moused over but onclicks and links work.

• Frame 7 - Animation works but doesn't move on to next frame.
• Frame 12 - Animation works but doesn't move on to next frame.

Part III

• Frame 5 - Need to use the nav bar to advance to next frame.
• Frame 11 - Tiffy doesn't appear (but her hot zone does and receives events).
• Frame 26 - Tiffy's hot zone doesn't appear or receive events. This is the first hot zone in the frame so it's unlcear if the others work.

Part IV

• Frame 18 - Tiffy's hot zone doesn't appear but accepts events.
• Frame 21 - Tiffy's hot zone doesn't appear but accepts events.

Part V

• Frame 14 - Trista's nipples are very prominent, pressumably due to a filter problem.
• Frame 27-29 - Safari tends to crash about here!
• Frame 32 - Satalite missing.
• Frame 33 - Buchannon's (an image referencing an SVGZ file) picture too small (his hot zone is the correct size).

Part VI

• Frame 7 - Black, possibly because it has a bitmap image as a background with filters over it.
• Frame 11-13 - Name missing from user icon.
• Frame 28 - Doesn't progress to next frame (have to use navbar). Hot zone won't dissapear.
• Frame 29 - Only one animation (birds) runs. Doesn't progress to next frame (have to use navbar).
• Frame 30 - Buchannon (image elements referencing SVGZ files) too small.

Part VII

• Frames 4-7 - Text "White Dove Conflict Resolution" doesn't appear.
• Frame 8 - Text "Superheroes of Marsailes" doesn't appear. Doesn't move to next frame when clicked.
• Frame 15 - Fairy's hot zone (fist one) doesn't receive events.
• Frames 16-17 Dactura's hot zone (first one) doesn't receive events.
• Frame 18 - Buchannon (image elements referencing SVGZ files) too small.
• Frame 23 - The relies on filters to give texture and doesn't look anywhere as near as good as it should the way Safari has applied them.
• Frame 32 - Hernandez's picture (image referencing SVGZ file) a bit too small and incorrectly clipped by clip path.

Part VIII

• Frame 14 - No text on Noriega's badge.
• Frame 15 - Viewing awkward due to no zoom and bizare pan.
• Frame 16 - No text on Noriega's badge.
• Frame 17-20 - Flashing lines on map don't appear.
• Frame 28 - Problematic because of zoom and pan.
• Frame 30-31 - Clicking on the frame results in an SMIL warning (although this version of Safari is supposed to support SMIL) and the frame doesn't advance (can use forward button).
• Frame 32 - Clicking of the frame has no effect (can use forward button).
• Frame 54 - No text on user icon.
• Frame 58 - Flames are black.

Part XI

• Frame 3 - Land masses missing from Earth. Upon clicking, get a SMIL warning which won't go away when clicked.
• Frame 4-5 - Upon clicking, get a SMIL warning which won't go away when clicked.