File talk:ColonialBanner.png

Bug in the SVG renderer?

Viewing the image at full size shows the image uploaded unmangled. What was foxing me was the thumbnail version that the upload page shows you. That is definitely not rendering correctly. The circular gradient in the center of the seal is missing for some unknown reason. Folks, this is why real artists don't use orphan formats like SVG... There's no good program to directly edit them (and no, Inkblot isn't that good a choice either. It appears to have been written by geeks rather than artists from what I've seen of it's user interface.) The only browser support is through Adobe's badly-outdated plugin (which won't display SVG files that Adobe Illustrator outputs, doesn't that fill you with confidence?). Though Mozilla says they'll have native support working Real Soon Now. Even the WikiCommons group is still pretty heavily divided on this issue because the format is so poorly supported. The biggest argument for it has been MediaWiki's internal SVG rendering engine. The fact that it can't seem to scale drawings correctly doesn't fill me with confidence. I know the drawings and icons I've done for Wikipedia were all in PNG format (and some of them were in the last month or so).

Vector graphics format is only cool if you can actually get it to scale cleanly. It doesn't appear to be doing so in this case. I'll try a few more things with the parent file that have been suggested to me, but if that doesn't fix the problem, I'd suggest switching to PNG format until MediaWiki gets their act together. And submit this as a problem ticket to them, though I'm sure someone else has already done so.--Scotchfairy 09:57, 4 August 2006 (CDT)

Very werid error. Looks like a transparent code problem. :-x Yeah... if it doesn't work.. I'm sad to say PNG is the next best thing.