The Mozilla SVG project is again calling for testing of another patch for SVG functionality:
It looks like SVG Events made it into Firefox 1.5, but it's not clear whether textPath or filters would make it into the branch (Firefox 1.5) or if it would just remain in the trunk (Firefox 2.0 development branch). Go download the latest nightly trunk build (i.e. Firefox 2.0 development branch) and test it out.
Looks like Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 (supporting a large portion of SVG 1.1 Full) will be released in less than a week: September 8th.
Also, the Renesis Viewer Beta 1 (supporting at least SVG 1.2 Mobile) will likely happen in November timeframe, with a stretch goal of October.
The Mozilla SVG project is calling for testing of two patches for SVG functionality:
Feedback will help determine whether this functionality makes it into Firefox 1.5, so if you're brave, go download the latest nightly trunk build (i.e. Firefox 2.0 development branch) and test the functionality out.
Via mozillaZine. It appears that Firefox 1.5 will include support for a series of new JavaScript functions dealing with arrays. These extensions are outside of the Ecma-262 language specification that formally describes JavaScript. Read the rest of this entry ...
Firefox 1.5 is not even out yet, but right now there are some pretty significant pieces of work going on to update the SVG functionality available (I'm assuming these patches will not make it into Firefox 1.5, but I could be wrong). In fact patches exist for:
As soon as I get some time I'll try to remember how to build Firefox (last time I tried there were some errors), get some of these patches, apply them, and test it out. Should be fun...