RE: Ability to disable external resource fetching

> -----Original Message-----
> From: annevankesteren@gmail.com [mailto:annevankesteren@gmail.com]
> On Behalf Of Anne van Kesteren
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 4:37 AM
> To: www-style@w3.org
> Cc: www-svg
> Subject: Ability to disable external resource fetching
> 
> When you load SVG as <img src=svg> and similar contexts it is not allowed to
> load further resources as to restrict its security model to GIF. This is also the
> plan for when using external SVG elements through 'mask' or some such.
> 

This is currently not true for IE (as far as I can tell since IE9 initial SVG support) as we do allow external resources for SVG as an image - but coincidentally we were just having a discussion about few issues caused by this and want to change this behavior and match other browsers for interoperability. 

Received on Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:57:51 UTC