"SVG ID references are now live" in Firefox 3.5
Volker Gersabeck
I have some trouble with the new Firefox 3.5 and my WebApp. The scenario is
somewhat like this:
I have a svg:use tag that references some svg:g tag. Both live in the same
xhtml but in different inline svgs. Let's call the use tag the container and
the group the content. Similar to this:
<html><body>
<svg id="one"><g id="content" >...</g></svg>
<svg id="container"><use xlink:href="#content"/></svg>
</body></html>
Both parts are loaded via ajax and inserted into the xhtml dom
independently. At first, the container is loaded. At this point, the content
is not yet there. Then the content is loaded and shows up in the container.
Everything fine so far. Then I do a reload of the container (remove the old
container and insert the new container into the dom). At this point, the
content does not show up anymore. After playing with the href attribute
(setting it to something and then the original value again), i can manage to
have the content visible. However, whenever I reload the container, the
content does not show up. This setup does work in Firefox 3 and Safari, but
with the new Firefox 3.5 it does not work anymore.
After a complete day of searching for the cause of this problem and
googleing around I found this page (
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.5_for_developers) where it says
that "SVG ID references are now live" in Firefox 3.5. Well, I don't
understand what this should mean to me, and since there was no link and
google didn't give me anything useful, I'm still wondering whether this
might be related to my problem. Does anybody of you have a clue what this
change of the ID references could mean?
Thanks for your support!
Regards,
Volker
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> <svg id="one"><g id="content" >...</g></svg>
> <svg id="container"><use xlink:href="#content"/></svg>
> After a complete day of searching for the cause of this problem and
> googleing around I found this page (
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_3.5_for_developers) where it says
> that "SVG ID references are now live" in Firefox 3.5. Well, I don't
> understand what this should mean to me, and since there was no link and
> google didn't give me anything useful, I'm still wondering whether this
> might be related to my problem. Does anybody of you have a clue what this
> change of the ID references could mean?
It means that before if you inserted the id="content" thing after the
container, it would generally not have worked. And that if you set the
id attribute via script it would not have worked....
Can you point to an example page showing your problem?
-Boris