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March 16, 2006
textPath for Firefox 2
Today <svg:textPath> support was checked into the MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH (bug 327539), which means barring serious problems it will appear in Firefox 2. You can try it out in branch nightly builds starting on Friday, or in the alpha of Firefox 2 which should be coming out shortly.
The branch textPath support currently doesn't have the excellent work Robert Longson has been doing to expand the svg text module DOM methods to handle textPath. We're be interested to hear if just the ability to draw text on a path is enough for your content, or if you also need the DOM interfaces backing it.
We're eager to hear the results of testing with your content. Of particular interest are any regressions seen in SVG text support relative to Firefox 1.5.x.
Posted by tor at March 16, 2006 10:44 PM
Comments
It would be good if sometime we could get a post about the expected rendering etc differences in Firefox 2.0 as opposed to 1.5. Most people (myself included) probably thought that, because Gecko wasn't being upgraded (much), there would be almost no rendering differences.
Posted by: Ian at March 17, 2006 5:07 PM
Sin wave Marquee text here we come!
Posted by: NeilM at March 17, 2006 7:56 PM
Could you please turn foreign object on in this upcoming build? This would make it much easier to create scientific graphs (where axes labels can have complicated typesetting that is most easily expressed via MathML).
Posted by: Chris Chiasson at March 21, 2006 4:51 AM
So far it looks great! The fonts are still a bit choppy on the edges but I think this is due to cario.
Thanks for getting this into the branch!
Posted by: Bruce at March 21, 2006 5:13 PM
I work on a project where all rendering is done dynamically. If I understand your question correctly, this means that text path would not be available from the scripting engine since there is no DOM backing it.
If that is the case, then I'd like to vote for the DOM being developed.
Posted by: JP Fiset at April 11, 2006 5:54 PM
Will this effectively give same functionality as Adobe SVG Viewer 3.03?
Posted by: Ashish at April 18, 2006 5:22 PM