From fd4dd13270b564c45ff81f0b7928c1db66465733 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Breloff <tom@breloff.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 13:36:21 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] added svg in pyplot; deprecate qwt; writemime backup for html

---
 src/backends/pyplot.jl | 3 ++-
 src/backends/qwt.jl    | 1 +
 src/output.jl          | 5 +++++
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/backends/pyplot.jl b/src/backends/pyplot.jl
index fd72257e..88ba7b81 100644
--- a/src/backends/pyplot.jl
+++ b/src/backends/pyplot.jl
@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ const _pyplot_mimeformats = @compat Dict(
     "application/pdf"         => "pdf",
     "image/png"               => "png",
     "application/postscript"  => "ps",
-    # "image/svg+xml"           => "svg"
+    "image/svg+xml"           => "svg"
   )
 
 
@@ -888,6 +888,7 @@ for (mime, fmt) in _pyplot_mimeformats
   end
 end
 
+
 # function Base.writemime(io::IO, m::MIME"image/png", subplt::Subplot{PyPlotPackage})
 #   finalizePlot(subplt)
 #   writemime(io, m, getfig(subplt.o))
diff --git a/src/backends/qwt.jl b/src/backends/qwt.jl
index e4101a9f..a6b09088 100644
--- a/src/backends/qwt.jl
+++ b/src/backends/qwt.jl
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 function _initialize_backend(::QwtPackage; kw...)
   @eval begin
+    warn("Qwt is no longer supported... many features will likely be broken.")
     import Qwt
     export Qwt
   end
diff --git a/src/output.jl b/src/output.jl
index 5a97848a..ad8bb9f3 100644
--- a/src/output.jl
+++ b/src/output.jl
@@ -112,3 +112,8 @@ gui(plt::PlottingObject = current()) = display(PlotsDisplay(), plt)
 
 # override the REPL display to open a gui window
 Base.display(::Base.REPL.REPLDisplay, ::MIME"text/plain", plt::PlottingObject) = gui(plt)
+
+# a backup for html... passes to svg
+function Base.writemime(io::IO, ::MIME"text/html", plt::PlottingObject)
+  writemime(io, MIME("image/svg+xml"), plt)
+end