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I'm working on a thumbnailer whereby a service takes thumbnail images of HTML content in a form-less IE9 control. Everything is working smoothly with a DrawToBitmap call along with a couple of GDI calls, but SVG content is not displaying. Everything else seems to display just fine, but no SVG.
I figure that this has something to do with how SVG is implemented in IE, but I don't know the details. Any thoughts?
TIA.
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The answer came from Ted Johnson of IEBlog:
IE9 has no separate SVG engine; it’s all one DOM and rendering pipeline. However, if your document isn’t in 9 standards document mode, you’ll not get any SVG content. I think, by default, the WebBrowser control in .NET defaults to compatibility mode. Try adding a meta tag to the top of your HTML page to force IE9 mode:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9">
This, indeed, turned on SVG rendering like a light switch.
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You can also set a doctype of HTML4 strict or HTML5.
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
From http://www.seowarp.com/blog/2011/06/svg-scaling-problems-in-ie9-and-other-browsers/ :
Before I begin, I’d just like to point out that on my test page, Internet Explorer 9 refused to display any of my SVG images on a basic HTML page until I declared the HTML4 strict or HTML5 doctypes.
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