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browser SVG bugs

This page lists the bugs of the underlying browser SVG implementations for which I have filed a bug report.

Browser Bug id Description Fix or bypass
Firefox Bug 374216 – Setting element.style.someSvgProperty has no effect The syntax used by GWT Style class to access properties (element.style[propertyName] = value) does not work for SVG elements The getSyle() methods of SVG elements returns an OMSVGStyle which derives from GWT Style. This object has getSVGProperty() / setSVGProperty() methods, which implement the bypass proposed by 374216 to access the style properties. Thus you should not use the getStyle()/setStyle() methods from Style as the code will not work with Firefox)
Firefox 3.6+ Bug 543965 – SVGLocatable::getCTM on outer SVG element returns null instead of an instance of SVGMatrix The title says it all. It turns out one should not call getCTM on the root element. If one does, FF returns null while other browsers return getScreenCTM A later version of lib-gwt-svg will emulate other browser’s behavior for consistency’s sake.
Firefox Bug 265895 – Support SVGElementInstance event delivery for <svg:use> Events occurring on SVGUseElement should have a target of type SVGElementInstance. Firefox incorrectly sets the target directly to SVGUseElement Currently there is no bypass for this. If you need events on SVGUseElement, you should not try to access the event targets in you handlers.
Chrome Issue 23810 Crash when one update the coordinates of a SVGUseElement from an event handler No bypass yet Version 4.1.249.1036 (41514) of Chrome fixes the bug
Chrome TBD Setting the coordinates of a SVGUseElement programmatically does not work No bypass yet Version 4.1.249.1036 (41514) of Chrome fixes the bug
Chome / Safari Bug 46025 – Altering the CSS class of an attached SVG element causes Chrome to crash You cannot change the “class” attribute of an SVG element once it has been attached to the DOM tree. Otherwise, the browser crashes No bypass yet
Chome / Safari Bug 46259 – SVG path is not displayed correctly In lib-gwt-svg-samples, the heart image is not displayed correctly (it is truncated). Maybe it is related to the path containing a mix of CurvetoCubicRel and CurvetoCubicAbs ? No bypass yet
Chome / Safari Bug 46260 – Inside a table, SVG images sized by CSS with percentage units are not displayed This issue forces apps to use a ResizeHandler and compute the svg size manually, instead of relying on CSS2 with an SVG size specified with percentage units No bypass yet
Chome / Safari Bug 46910 – Node.cloneNode does not work on SVG nodes SVG nodes which are created programmatically cannot be cloned (the clone has blank attributes) No bypass yet

You may also want to check the global bug databases for major browsers

Browser URL
Chrome Google issue tracker
Firefox Bugzilla
Opera Opera bug tracker (registration required)