User:MarkFinkle/PushingSVG

SVG Patches in the Queue

Gecko 1.9

• Filters: Currently our SVG implementation supports all but two filters from the specification - feDisplacementMap (bug 389746) and feImage (bug 390379). We would like to have all filters to make life easier for content developers. This is a new element which didn't involve altering other codepaths, so the risk of it causing problems outside feImage is very minimal.
• SVG layout issue: bug 294086 has a patch that fixes some problems with SVG layout and sizing when using CSS sizing. It also fixes several SVG in XUL problems. There are 12 bugs blocked and the comments indicate that they would be fixed by this patch.

Gecko 1.9.1

• SVG Fonts: There is a slightly better than proof-of-concept patch for SVG Fonts in bug 119490. If given a green light this might be doable for 1.9, more doable for 1.9.1
• SVG as IMG: It is becoming common to hear people ask for SVG support as an image format (<img src="some.svg"/>), including CSS images too. It may require some changes to our image APIs because we should throw away the SVG DOM and ignore scripts (from Vlad).

SVG Projects

• Core
  • JS SVG DOM builder utilities
  • Enhanced graphs (dynamic and interactive)
    • Look at Flash's and WPF graph libraries
  • Flowcharting
  • Using foreignObject for nice (HTML) text wrapping
• Animation
  • SMIL in JS
  • Using HTML JS libraries
  • Mozilla SMIL patch
  • Can we make an extension to help to slow parts of JS SMIL
• 3D SVG
  • Look into existing JS libs
  • Can we make an extension for the matrix math (binary code)