SVG on firefox, the linux way

[yota]

I stumbled upon the SVG issue described here[1] and there[2], but I didn't found an answer yet.

Let's take this wonderful tutorial of `<set />` based animations from peter's website[3].
(put your mouse over the green square to fade the blue one, full page here[4]).

It works perfectly, as you may see. Saved on disk and opened with Firefox, locally, it fails on Linux (seems to work on windows) !

You can try it at home...
Any clue on what's missing ?

tested on ubuntu oneiric with firefox 11.0 and winXP with the same firefox

[1]: http://doctype.com/firefox-linux-svg-support
[2]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6186335/how-to-display-interactive-svg-in-a-window-on-linux
[3]: http://www.petercollingridge.co.uk/sites/files/peter/hover3_set_attribute.svg
[4]: http://www.petercollingridge.co.uk/data-visualisation/mouseover-effects-svgs

[Daniel Holbert]

Hi Yota,

On 04/13/2012 01:11 PM, yota wrote:
> I stumbled upon the SVG issue described here[1] and there[2], but I didn't found an answer yet.

Note that the first one mentions Firefox 3.5, which is quite old. Given
that, I didn't read your [1] and [2] articles in detail, and I'm just
focusing on [3]:

> Let's take this wonderful tutorial of `<set />` based animations from peter's website[3].

> It works perfectly, as you may see. Saved on disk and opened with Firefox, locally, it fails on Linux

Works for me.

I tried it using a Nightly firefox build, as well as the latest Firefox
release shipped with Ubuntu 12.04
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120413 Firefox/14.0a1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
and both of them worked perfectly with both the web-hosted version & a
locally-saved copy.

Could you test using a (temporary) fresh Firefox profile, by running the
following command and loading the testcase in the window that pops up:
mkdir /tmp/ffprofile && firefox -profile /tmp/ffprofile -no-remote

Thanks,
~Daniel

[yota]

>
> Could you test using a (temporary) fresh Firefox profile, by running the
> following command and loading the testcase in the window that pops up:
> mkdir /tmp/ffprofile && firefox -profile /tmp/ffprofile -no-remote
>
> Thanks,
> ~Daniel

O_o it works ... very well done !

If you had a clue, on why it doesn't on my default profile ?

Thx again, for your helpful insight !

Yota

[Daniel Holbert]

On 04/14/2012 01:52 AM, yota wrote:
> O_o it works ... very well done !
>
> If you had a clue, on why it doesn't on my default profile ?

Not sure... If you really want to figure it out, I'd suggest starting by
disabling all your addons (and restarting Firefox), and then if that
doesn't fix it, perhaps making a backup of your profile folder &
sequentially deleting chunks of the profile until it works. :)

If you happen to figure it out, I'd be interested to know what was going on!

> Thx again, for your helpful insight !

No problem!

~Daniel