Re: gteElementById for animate?

John J Barton <[email protected]> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:11:35 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.svg
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Daniel Holbert wrote:
>  > Any idea why I can't get the
>  > animate element?
> 
> Probably because you're using Firefox 3.6 (or lower), which lacks SVG 
> Animation support and hence doesn't recognize the <animate> node.
> 
> It treats it the same as it would treat e.g.
>    <asdfasdf id="migrationAnimateX" ...>
> (which it will also refuse to look up by ID)
> 
> In mozilla-central nightly builds (which have SMIL support), though, 
> this works fine.  getElementById returns the animate element, and it 
> successfully updates its 'to' attribute. I've posted an example here, 
> using the javascript you provided, plus an 'alert' to demonstrate 
> non-nullness:
> http://people.mozilla.org/~dholbert/tests/jjb_animate_issue/x2-example.svg
> 
> ~Daniel'

Thanks! I animated with Javascript in the meantime. Next time...

jjb