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· Adobe SVG viewer 6: A beta development of the leading ASV3, which Adobe Systems claim supports most of the proposed SVG 1.2 standard (World Wide Web Consortium (5), 2003). ASV6 passed all the tests. Available from http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/beta.html

· Adobe SVG viewer 3: As discussed in the review of literature this is the most widely used SVG viewer, ASV3 passed all the tests except that in test 6 the cursor was not hidden Available from http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/main.html

· Adobe SVG viewer 2: An earlier version on the Adobe viewer, which a number of users have installed (often unknowingly) with another Adobe Systems product such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. It passed all the tests except for test 6 and as a result the game was unplayable. As a further consequence test 8 was a partial pass. In both cases unclear JavaScript error messages were given offering the user no alternative course of action. Available from http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/old.html

· Corel SVG viewer 2: The primary alternative to the Adobe viewers. The viewer appeared not to support simple SVG animation and only some JavaScript support. Where the task was not completed satisfactorily the viewer did not return any error message, potentially giving the user the impression that all is well when the rendering is incomplete. Available from http://www.smartgraphics.com/Viewer_prod_info.shtml

· Batik: An open source SVG browser, which operates on the Java platform. It is a browser, not a plugin and as such does not open HTML files so is ill suited to viewing integrated SVG on the Internet. Additionally there is no support for any animation whether SVG or JavaScript driven. Available from http://xml.apache.org/batik/

· Amaya 8: A browser combined with an editor. An open source project by the W3C. It performed very poorly, but did give comprehensive, if technical, error messages. Available from http://www.w3.org/Amaya/Amaya.html

· Mozilla SVG project: An attempt to provide native support for SVG. It performed extremely poorly and gave no error messages. Whilst it purports to open SVG images it does not do so if they are embedded in an HTML page. Available from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/