Closed Bug 249280 Opened 20 years ago Closed 14 years ago

mozcc cannot access RDF creative commons licence in SVG files loaded by the adobe asv3.1 plugin

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(External Software Affecting Firefox :: Other, enhancement)

PowerPC
macOS
enhancement
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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

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(Reporter: jay, Unassigned)

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(Whiteboard: [adobe svg plugin])

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040628 Firefox/0.9.1

Mozcc is an excellent extension which provides creative commons licence
information when it is present as RDF. http://www.yergler.net/projects/mozcc/

However this only works for HTML or Mozilla native SVG.

There is a problem with Mozilla architecture and adobe asv3.1 plugin
architecture that is preventing   mozcc accessing the RDF creative commons licence.

This would appear rather strange, as this is all text, and presumably available
to mozilla irrespective of the adobe plugin, eg <view source> displays correctly.

I realise that this is a tricky issue, and believe it needs urgent attention.
Mozcc represents an extremely good use of RDF.
Furthermore SVG, CC, and Mozilla are all dedicated to open source in their
different ways.

firefox0.9.1 rocks

please get this done!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.install adobe asv 3.1
2.install mozcc
3.visit http://www.peepo.co.uk/launch/index.svg

Actual Results:  
mozcc claims no RDF creative commons licence information is available

Expected Results:  
graphical icon indicating Public Domain
further and full information when clicking on the CC icon
Does it happen if some other plug-in is responsible for rendering? I am not 
sure how mozcc works, but I think that Mozilla implicitly creates an 
HTML "thunk" to pull-in plug-in data which looks like this:

<html>
<body>
<object data="..."/>
</body>
</html>

Maybe mozcc mistakenly tries to get licence out of that thing. 
Yes, that is what mozCC does.  For HTML documents it uses
document.documentElement.innerHTML to get the document contents and then parse
them for in-comment RDF, etc.  It seems that the Adobe SVG plugin doesn't
actually expose the DOM tree in a similar fashion.  Of course, I'm open to
suggestions on other (better) ways to extract the document source, or ways to
access the Adobe SVG DOM that I haven't tried yet.
You won't be able to access Adobe SVG DOM since it not (and could not) be 
exposed to Mozilla. This problem might be fixed in the future versions of 
Mozilla and SVG plugin - but that's long term. Meanwhile you could detect an 
HTML stub, load the source of the object and parse it using regular Mozilla 
XML parser. This would work with all XML formats and all plug-ins.
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Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2)
Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2
Reporter, Please try if you can reproduce with the latest
nightly build ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
Component: Plug-ins → Other
Product: Core → Plugins
Version: Trunk → unspecified
The adobe SVG 3.1 plug in is dead. It it no longer supported by Adobe.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Robert,

please leave my bugs alone, this has nothing to do with adobe
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
In comment 0 you wrote

> There is a problem with Mozilla architecture and adobe asv3.1 plugin
> architecture that is preventing   mozcc accessing the RDF creative commons
> licence.

So why is it now not about Adobe?
this would require some effort by the plugin vendor, and as the plugin is defunct, this bug is effectively wontfix.
Severity: major → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago14 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Summary: mozcc cannot access RDF creative commons licence in SVG files → mozcc cannot access RDF creative commons licence in SVG files loaded by the adobe asv3.1 plugin
Whiteboard: [adobe svg plugin]
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