SVG improvements in Firefox 3

Firefox 3 offers improved Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support over prior versions of Firefox. While these features are documented elsewhere, this article serves as a convenient list so you can easily determine which features were added in Firefox 3.

• The foreignObject element is now supported (Firefox bug 326966).

• pattern element is now supported.

• mask element is now supported.

• Support for all SVG 1.1 filters has been added:

  • filter
  • feDistantLight
  • fePointLight
  • feSpotLight
  • feBlend
  • feColorMatrix
  • feConvolveMatrix
  • feComponentTransfer, feFuncR, feFuncG, feFuncB, feFuncA
  • feComposite
  • feConvolveMatrix
  • feDiffuseLighting
  • feDisplacementMap
  • feDistantLight
  • feFlood
  • feGaussianBlur
  • feImage
  • feMerge, feMergeNode
  • feMorphology
  • feOffset
  • fePointLight
  • feSpecularLighting
  • feTurbulence
  • feTile

• <a> element handling in SVG has had several bugs fixed; see Firefox bug 267664, WebKit bug 268135, WebKit bug 316248, WebKit bug 317270 and WebKit bug 320724.

• The SVG DOM methods getNumberOfChars(), getComputedTextLength(), getSubStringLength(), getStartPositionOfChar(), getEndPositionOfChar(), getRotationOfChar(), and getCharNumAtPosition() have been implemented.

• The xml:space attribute is now supported.

• Fallback fill/stroke are now supported.

• em and ex units are now supported for indicating lengths (Firefox bug 305859).