[Catalyst] Re: Catalyst, Firefox and SVG

[Brandon Black]

On 12/9/05, Maurice Height <mauriceh at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
> Andy Grundman wrote:
>
> > Firefox is a stickler for MIME types, and the latest version of
> > MIME::Types does not include one for svg.  You will have to set the type
> > manually:
>
> > MyApp->config->{static}->{mime_types} = { svg => 'image/svg+xml' };
> >
> > Oh and I should say, that even though you have the type specified in your
> > html file, Static::Simple serves unknown types as text/plain, which is
> > most likely where the problem comes from.
>
> I think you nailed it, because I tried this in my test app:
>
> __PACKAGE__->config( name   => 'CatApp',
>                      root   => CatApp->path_to('root'),
>                      static => { mime_types => { svg => 'image/svg+xml' } },
> );
>
> but it did not stop FireFox from displaying the SVG content as text
> (Internet Explorer is OK).
> At this stage I do not have a clue how to fix this.
> While I can use IE as a workaround for now, is this problem something that
> can be fixed in Catalyst or MIME::Types?
>

Can you save the svg output as a static file and serve it staticly as
image/svg+xml and get firefox to work?  I seem to remember it's also a
stickler about the first few lines of your svg xml (the xml prolog or
lack thereof, the doctype or lack thereof, and the svg xmlns
attribute, etc).  Last time I played with svg, I had to spend a lot of
time getting just the right combination of both mimetype and first few
lines to get it to work right on both IE and FF.