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 (bug 326966). See the specification or this article for details.
• pattern element support (spec)
• mask element support (spec)
• Support for all SVG 1.1 filters (spec):
  • 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 bug 267664, bug 268135, bug 267664, bug 317270 and bug 267664.
• The SVG DOM Methods getNumberOfChars(), getComputedTextLength(), getSubStringLength(), getStartPositionOfChar(), getEndPositionOfChar(), getRotationOfChar(), and getCharNumAtPosition() have been implemented.
• the xml:space attribute support (spec)
• fallback fill/stroke are now supported (spec)
• em and ex units are now supported for indicating lengths (bug 305859).

See also

• SVG
• SVG in Firefox
• Firefox 3 for developers