267953 - Allow text/ecmascript for SVG script elements

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[tor]

Lots of SVG content in the wild uses text/ecmascript for the type
attribute of <svg:script>.  To allow better interoperability with
other SVG implementations I think we should allow this mimetype.

Allowing this mimetype has been proposed for the entire browser in
bug 62485, but as that shows no signs of being resolved soon we
can deal with this for only SVG using a very simple patch.

Comment 1

[tor]

Attachment: allow text/ecmascript for <svg:script>

Comment 2

[timeless]

so we're ok with invading ietf's namespace? good to know.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

If we allow this, it should be allowed for all content, not just SVG.

Comment 4

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

I don't think we should do this while this is not an official mimetype
(ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/text)

Comment 5

[tor]

text/javascript isn't official either, yet we accept that.  The SVG
specification specifically spells out text/ecmascrpt.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

I think Ian's right -- we should either allow this for all scripts, or not at all...

Comment 7

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

Re: comment 4: the URL now is http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/.

ECMA and w3.org folks have been contacted; I'll keep this bug apprised of plans
and progress.

/be

Comment 8

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

brendan:

Any progress on this?

Comment 9

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

A new Internet-Draft is available from

  http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoehrmann-script-types-01.txt
  http://www.websitedev.de/ietf/draft-hoehrmann-script-types-01.txt

If you have comments please send them to the ietf-types mailing list,
see http://www.alvestrand.no/mailman/listinfo/ietf-types for details.

Comment 10

[Rick Beton]

There's a v02 version of the draft available:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hoehrmann-script-types-02.txt

Rick

Comment 11

[bugzilla.mozilla.org]

just voted for that bug for practical reasons:

I got a bunch of SVG example files together with the batik plugin for exlipse IDE.

The ones that contain script are all defined as text/ecmascript - don't work in
mozilla.

Once I change that to text/javascript most examples run fine in svg-enabled
mozilla. But then the eclipse internal (batik-based) svg renderer doesn't like
the files anymore untill i change scripting type bach to ecma :(

Comment 12

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

It looks like this is being fixed as part of bug 62485.

Comment 13

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Fixed by the fix for bug 62485.

Comment 14

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** Bug 299003 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Bart Friederichs]

Does this also apply to scripts that are linked? I have an SVG with this as a
script:

<script type="text/ecmascript" xlink:href="javascript/svg.js" />

which doesn't work. When changing it to type/javascript it works. I am using
Deer Park alpha 1 for this. Perhaps the fix is in a later version (or will be in
Fx 1.1) ?