Re: SVG Script in Firefox troubles

Chris Lilley <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:52:55 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.svg
Organization	W3C
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On Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 3:21:49 PM, Boris wrote:

BZ> On 10/13/09 5:36 AM, Dale Ellis wrote:
>>      tri.setAttributeNS('http://www.w3.org/2000/xlink/namespace/',

BZ> I have no idea where you got that namespace string.  The right namespace
BZ> is "http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink".

BZ> The fact that this works in the Adobe SVG viewer is slightly astounding...

Yes :) but I think I understand why ...

Due to it's age, ASV supported several older working drafts of SVG as well as the eventual recommendation. Early drafts had the namespaces declared as fixed attributes in the DTD, meaning they could not be changed (and did not need to be declared in the svg file itself).

It would have been better if they had removed support for old working draft features once the final Recommendation was released.

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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:[email protected]
 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
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