January 16, 2008

Most known SVG Viewers List

Here is a list of most used SVG Viewers from Web3.0.Demystified:

Renesis SVG Viewer
Sub-title: SVG 1.2 Compatible Cross-Plattform Viewer
Developed by: Emia Systems
Current Version: None
Type of Implementation: SVG Viewer
License Type: Free Product
Availability: Not Publicly Available
OS Platform: Windows, Windows CE, Mac OS, Linux, Embedded Linux, Other Unix, Solaris, Any .NET Enabled, PalmOS, FreeBSD, BeOS, Symbian, WindowsCE, Other, Smartphones
Built to SVG Profile: SVG Full
http://www.examotion.com/pages/renesis/index.php
Notes: Renesis is the new SVG 1.2 Rendering Engine from EvolGrafiX. Renesis is planed to be available for Windows Platforms, Linux Platforms, Unix Platforms (including Mac OS X) and mobile platforms like Windows CE, Linux Embedded and Symbian as well as for the Webbrowsers Firefox / Mozilla / Netscape, Internet Explorer and Opera as well as Safari on MacOS X.
Renesis will support about 94% of the SVG 1.2 Standard, 100% of the SVG 1.2 Mobile Standard as well as the sXBL Standard.
Renesis is a platform written on standards so that applications build for SVG can run on Renesis on any of the previously mentioned platforms.

eSVG Viewer
Sub-title: SVG Viewer for mobile devices
Developed by: eSVG Viewer for PC, PDA, Mobile
Current Version: 2.3
Type of Implementation: Mobile SVG Viewer
License Type: Commercial Product
Availability: Trial
OS Platform: Windows CE, Symbian
Built to SVG Profile: SVG Basic
http://www.esvg.com/
Notes: SVG Viewer for mobile devices and embedded systems.

GPAC Project
Sub-title: Multimedia framework including players and encoders for different multimedia formats including SVG
Developed by: GPAC
Current Version: 0.4.2
Type of Implementation: SVG Viewer
License Type: Open Source Project
Availability: Free Download
OS Platform: Windows, Windows CE, Linux, Embedded Linux, WindowsCE
Built to SVG Profile: SVG Tiny
http://gpac.sourceforge.net/
Notes: GPAC features several players (a command line player for Win32 and Linux platforms called MP4Client, a player with GUI for Win32, Windows Mobile and Linux called Osmo4 and plugins for IE and Firefox). These players allow rendering of SVG content conformant to SVG Tiny 1.2, i.e. namely SVG Tiny 1.1 and audio/video/gradients/scripting. Detailled information may be found on the project web site.

Batik SVG Toolkit
Sub-title: A Java SVG toolkit, including the SVG browser Squiggle
Developed by: Apache Software Foundation
Current Version: 1.6
Type of Implementation: SVG Viewer
License Type: Open Source Project
Availability: Free Download
OS Platform: Any Java Enabled
Built to SVG Profile: SVG Full
http://xml.apache.org/batik/

Mozilla Firefox SVG support
Developed by: Mozilla SVG Project
Current Version: 1.5 beta 1
Type of Implementation: SVG Viewer
License Type: Open Source Project
Availability: Free Download
OS Platform: Windows, Mac OS, Linux
Built to SVG Profile: SVG Full
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
Notes: Firefox 1.5 will be the first product released by the Mozilla Foundation to include SVG support. In this beta 1 release support on Microsoft Windows is available on Windows XP only due to a dependance on the DLL gdiplus.dll. Downloading this file from microsoft.com and copying it to your Firefox install directory will automatically enable SVG for anyone using an older versions of Windows.
The aim of the Mozilla SVG Project is ultimately to impelement SVG 1.1 Full. For the features included in this release of Firefox see
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/status-ff15.html
Mozilla code is stricter in some areas when it comes to conforming to the relevant standards. A lot of SVG will require a few tweaks for it to work in Mozilla Firefox. If you haven't read them already, check out the following documents for tips on getting your SVG to work in all SVG implementations and for answers to some frequently asked questions.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/faq.html

TinyLine
Sub-title: SVG Tiny viewer and SDK for Java devices
Developed by: TinyLine
Current Version: 1.8.2
Type of Implementation: SVG Viewer
License Type: Freeware
Availability: Free Download
OS Platform: Windows CE, Embedded Linux, Any Java Enabled, PalmOS, Symbian, J2ME
Built to SVG Profile: SVG Tiny
http://www.tinyline.com/
Notes: SVG Tiny implementation and advanced 2D graphics for J2ME platform

Opera 8
Sub-title:
Developed by: Opera Software
Current Version: 8.54
Type of Implementation: SVG Viewer
License Type: Free Product
Availability: Free Download
OS Platform: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD
Built to SVG Profile: SVG Tiny
http://opera.com/download/
Notes: Supports SVG 1.1 Tiny + gradients and opacity (also for 'g'-elements).

Opera 9
Sub-title:
Developed by: Opera Software
Current Version: 9.20
Type of Implementation: SVG Viewer
License Type: Free Product
Availability: Free Download
OS Platform: Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD
Built to SVG Profile: SVG Basic
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/
Notes: Supports SVG 1.1 Basic and parts of SVG 1.1 Full.
Support documentation in more detail here:
http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/opera9/svg/
Public releases available from:
http://www.opera.com/download/
Weekly builds can be downloaded from the desktop-team blog:
http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/

2 comments:

Ruud Steltenpool said...

Having the ancient Adobe viewer on top is a bad idea. Look at http://wiki.svg.org/Viewer_Matrix for a more up-to-date listing. There you'll find in the top left a link to a very nice comparison

Ron Shelby said...

Hm... Maybe it's old information. I have fixed the list.