SVG and Viewers

Because SVG has little current native browser support, to view SVG files, you must download an SVG viewer. There are numerous SVG viewers out, but by far the most popular is the Adobe SVG viewer. The viewer is free and can be downloaded by going to www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html. The Adobe viewer works with IE 4 and above and with Netscape 4.5 through 4.77.

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Browser Issues: Netscape and Opera

At the time of this writing, Netscape 6, 6.01, and Opera 5 were not officially supported in the Adobe SVG viewer. For information and updates on how to use Adobe's SVG viewer with the above browsers, please check out www.adobe.com/svg/.

In addition to the Adobe SVG viewer, the Batik project offers an open-source code viewer, ...

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