Re: Firefox and SVG

On 11/15/09 12:12 PM, Jan van der Meiden wrote:
> Fierfox seems unfit to display SVG. As far as I know support for SMIL
> animations is completely absent.

In shipped builds, yes.  It'll be in the Firefox version after Firefox 
3.6.  You can get test builds with it right now if you want.

> To make things worse: support for
> large number of objects with opacity seems to be broken since Firfox
> 3.5.5. I tested this on 3 platforms (win32 Windows XP an Vista and
> Suse Linux) all with several versions of the nightly buids of Firefox
> (3.5.4 3.5.5 and 3.5.6). On both win32 versions http://vector-graphics.appspot.com/t010.html

It looks like painting is being somewhat slow, but also that there's a 
huge amount of memory being allocated/deallocated.  At least on Mac.

Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528822

If you want to help out, can you attach a zipped-up version of the page 
that doesn't need to hit the network for any resources to the bug?

-Boris