Re: FF21: Why no scrollbars on SVG without explicit height?

On Tuesday, 4 June 2013 04:26:52 UTC+1, [email protected]  wrote:
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> Since my SVG lacks a height and width declared, my reading of the SVG spec is that both should default to 100% of the container, and thus all of my SVG should be displayed. If I explicitly specify a height, this problem goes away, but per the SVG spec I should not need one. (And, suppose the SVG is being generated programmatically - then calculating the correct height could be a lot of extra code.)

It's correct that both default to 100% of the container. That just means that 1 pixel of the container = 1 pixel of the drawing per http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/coords.html#EstablishingANewViewport

Opera implements this logic correctly too in this case.

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> Alternatively, if Firefox is not going to scale it so it all displays, at least provide a vertical scrollbar so I can see it all by scrolling.

But the svg element is exactly the size of the viewport, hence no scrollbars. 

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> Question: Is this a bug in Firefox's SVG handling? Or am I just misunderstanding the SVG spec?

I don't think there's a bug here.

Robert