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August 26, 2005
Call for testing: textPath
We landed support for <textPath> on the trunk last night, and would like help testing it to make sure that it's stable enough to be included in the branch (and thus Firefox 1.5). If you could grab a trunk Firefox nightly to test <textPath> and check for possible regressions in <text>/<tspan> it would be greatly apprecidated.
Please comment in bug 282579 about your sucesses/failures or if you don't have a bugzilla account add a comment to this blog entry. Thanks.
Posted by tor at August 26, 2005 5:06 PM
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I just wrote up an example for textPath today ( http://rr.latenightpc.com/wp/archives/2005/08/26/transforming-xml-to-an-svg-textpath/ ). Anyone interested can reuse my simple XSLT shell to make up additional test cases as they'd like.
Great to hear textPath is getting there, I've been waiting for this one. I'll try it out this weekend.
Posted by: Rob at August 26, 2005 11:16 PM
So far I've not had any luck seeing the element working on the latest builds (loading from latest nightlies). SVG IS running - I get the background rect displayed, and editing indicates that content is reaching the end of the block, but textPath doesn't appear to be working. Windows XP SP2 on an Acer laptop.
-- Kurt
Posted by: Kurt Cagle at August 30, 2005 6:40 PM
Hi Kurt
you sure talk about Robs example at latenightpc,
this examples also uses textPath inside tspan,
this has been discussed yesterday, and the conclusion is, that its correct that nothing is displayed. see the comments on the bug itself.
i will contact Rob, to let him know.
cheers
Holger
Posted by: Holger Will at August 31, 2005 9:05 AM
Kurt, maybe you are using the latest BRANCH build? The latest TRUNK build has textPath now working for the general case (see the examples at http://www.svgbasics.com/text2.html to confirm it's working) but the BRANCH build does not.
Posted by: Jeff Schiller at August 31, 2005 2:43 PM
So far I've not had any luck seeing the element working on the latest builds (loading from latest nightlies). SVG IS running - I get the background rect displayed, and editing indicates that content is reaching the end of the block, but textPath doesn't appear to be working. Windows XP SP2 on an Acer laptop.
Posted by: morfey at December 26, 2005 10:40 AM