576986 - pointer-events on foreignObject with ClipPath

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Jeremie Patonnier :Jeremie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100704 Minefield/4.0b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:2.0b2pre) Gecko/20100704 Minefield/4.0b2pre

When you apply a ClipPath to a foreignObject Element, the element is well clipped but the pointer events is captured over the clipped areas. As I know, the SVG specification said that it should not.

(See http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/interact.html#PointerEventsProperty)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the joined test case
2. click on the white part of the red squares
 
Actual Results:  
A script alert is shown

Expected Results:  
No script alert should be visible

Comment 1

[Jeremie Patonnier :Jeremie]

Attachment: Testcase for foreignObject + ClipPath + pointer-events

Red square show the issue, Green square show how it works well with regular SVG elements.

Comment 2

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Attachment: patch

Comment 3

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

pushed http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/7aa313a80930

Comment 4

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Thanks for the testcase Jeremie. Very helpful.