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February 18, 2008
Please test your SVG with Firefox 3 Beta 3
As some of you will have noticed, the third beta of Firefox 3 was released earlier this week.
Things are now getting pretty solid so now would be a great time for people to try it out and test it on their SVG. At this late state of development the emphasis is firmly on regressions -- please report any SVG that works fine in Firefox 2, but seems broken in some way in this latest Firefox 3 beta. The more eyes we have on this the better.
For anyone interested in testing, I'd suggest reading the release notes, at least from the Download section through the Known Issues section.
If you do find any SVG issues, the preferred method of reporting them is to file them in the SVG component of Mozilla's bugzilla.
If that seems too much trouble then please do mention them here rather than let them slip through the net. :-)
Posted by tor at February 18, 2008 10:51 PM
Comments
Unrelated to rendering, but zooming on an SVG file (such as old faithful http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/tiger/tiger.svg ) doesn't cause a horizontal scrollbar to appear. The vertical scrollbar works as expected.
Posted by: Andy at February 18, 2008 11:45 PM
FF3 rocks! I've been testing FF3b3 on an intranet application which uses SVG to render a graph created with JsViz [www.jsviz.org] to display database variables. You can see a simple example on [http://www.speich.net/computer/visualization.php].
I had no problems with SVG in FF3b2 so far and what's really great, there is a huge boost in performance. The rendering took always 100% CPU on FF2, but not anymore on FF3b3.
Posted by: Simon at February 19, 2008 8:05 AM
FF3 rocks! I've been testing FF3b3 on an intranet application which uses SVG to render a graph created with JsViz [www.jsviz.org] to display database variables. You can see a simple example on [http://www.speich.net/computer/visualization.php].
I had no problems with SVG in FF3b2 so far and what's really great, there is a huge boost in performance. The rendering took always 100% CPU on FF2, but not anymore on FF3b3.
Posted by: Simon at February 19, 2008 8:33 AM
broken rendering?
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:E8_graph.svg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/E8_graph.svg
Posted by: mois at February 19, 2008 9:06 AM
it seems to have a lot of improvements though I miss the following SVG text functions:
- selectSubString
- getCharNumAtPosition
- deselectAll
Will they make it into the final FF3?
Posted by: Pete at February 19, 2008 9:22 AM
Actually it seems that the text functions are still a bit weak. I great site for testing is: http://svglbc.datenverdrahten.de/?doc=textinformationen&znr=on
Most tests starting with 'text' are not working fully.
Posted by: Pete at February 19, 2008 9:28 AM
Yes, performance and compatibility is much better in FF3, huge step from FF2. Almost all is working as well as in FF2 or better. And yes, there's still weaker support for work with text/glyphs. TextSelection or text decorations would be good to have, at least...
Posted by: marek at February 19, 2008 12:28 PM
http://croczilla.com/svg/samples/svgtetris/svgtetris.svg
This appears to have some problems on Firefox 3 beta 3 on XP, even though Firefox 2 has no problem. Particularly with the text on the top.
Posted by: megara at February 20, 2008 12:03 PM
Although SVG TestSuite is a bit synthetic testing, it seems to me that at least those features which seemed (according to those tests) worked before, should work in the final FF3 as well. Nice graphical representation on e.g. http://www.codedread.com/svg-support.php is telling us that we all should expect full pass (green) on tests which in the past passed and now are broken (yellow). But it is for sure clear for you as well, I know, I'm just trying to say that expectations of end-users are like this: if it worked before, we hope it working in the first stable release as well..
Posted by: janis at February 21, 2008 7:48 AM
SVG text selection please
Posted by: stelt at March 2, 2008 11:44 AM
I have long wanted to embed SVG in html to achieve in-line scalable graphs, diagrams and equations. Suddenly in FF 3B4 it's all working! My diagrams scale with the text and print and my pages validate and I am delighted. Many thanks and much kudos to all who contributed.
Charles
Posted by: Charles Williams at March 13, 2008 8:44 AM
The tomato router firmware (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) uses SVG to display a real-time bandwidth graph. On my system with Firefox 3beta4 nothing at all of the SVG is visible but no problems appear with firefox 2 or other browsers (opera, etc.)
Posted by: Horstl at March 17, 2008 12:04 PM
Sorry, but what is mariburjeka?
Jane.
Posted by: sweet-dq at March 24, 2008 3:10 PM
Sorry, but what is mariburjeka?
Jane.
Posted by: sweet-dq at March 24, 2008 3:10 PM
Sorry, but what is mariburjeka?
Jane.
Posted by: sweet-dq at March 24, 2008 3:10 PM
There are some issues with displaying these SVG documents,
http://www.et.gr/ticket_download/?2008/1/59/svg/1/0/__ac/
It is possible to be related to the fact that the SVG files where exported from a particular application.
Any hints to make these look better (firefox configuration?), would be appreciated.
Posted by: Simos at April 9, 2008 2:05 PM
There are some issues with displaying these SVG documents,
http://www.et.gr/ticket_download/?2008/1/59/svg/1/0/__ac/
It is possible to be related to the fact that the SVG files where exported from a particular application.
Any hints to make these look better (firefox configuration?), would be appreciated.
Posted by: Simos at April 9, 2008 2:06 PM
@Simos
> some issues
Haven't noticed nothing serious at the first glance. Please be more specific and provide more details...
If you think it's a Firefox-specific SVG issue, you may try posting your question at the Mozilla SVG Tech group [1]. If you observe issues in most SVG implementations, then probably the Yahoo SVG Developers group [2] will be more appropriate.
Hope this helps,
Helder Magalhães
[1] http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.tech.svg/topics
[2] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/
Posted by: Helder Magalhães at April 24, 2008 9:52 AM
Embedded fonts still do not work.
Posted by: shameless at May 2, 2008 12:25 AM