- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <gsneddon@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:21:28 +0200
- To: Jeff Schiller <codedread@gmail.com>
- CC: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
Jeff Schiller wrote:
> Most browsers support inline SVG in XHTML (application/xhtml+xml). No
> browsers natively support SVG-in-HTML (text/html) though Firefox
> sounds like it is getting closer.
>
> Should there be a feature string defined in HTML5 for this capability
> (i.e. specifically for supporting SVG-in-HTML-syntax) for use with
> hasFeature [1]? I'm concerned about fallback scenarios and for
> preventing extra work for some libraries [2].
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-5CED94D7
> [2] http://berjon.com/hacks/force-svg/
I'm not sure we want to advocate use of hasFeature, as it seems better
to check for capability rather than some claim to support.
Given an HTML-with-SVG document, you could just:
var svg = document.getElementsByTagName("svg")[0];
var supported = svg.namespaceURI == "http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";
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Received on Thursday, 23 July 2009 09:22:12 UTC