292491 - SVG : Firefox does not reverse properly to the user space unit in text tags

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286101

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Paco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050426 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050426 Firefox/1.0+ + SVG

Please compare :
#1 
http://www.euro-fam.org/eurunion/documents/Codecision.psvg?LG=EN&LJ=FR
And :
#2 
http://www.euro-fam.org/eurunion/documents/Codecision.svg?LG=EN&LJ=FR

#1 does not display properly using Firefox (it does using ASVG)
#2 does display correctly in both viewers.

Now the only difference (apart a slight correction of the root element width,
height and viewbox size to better fit a brwoser window) is the following :
- in #1 : all font-size expressed in pixels, but implicitly (as in : <text
style="font-size:423">) ;
- in #2 : all font-size expressed in mm (as in : <text style="font-size:90mm">)

So apparently Firefox has a bug there, not properly setting the font size in
pixels when the unit is not explicit.

Proof : if  explicitly adding "px" unit in #1 (<text style="font-size:423px">
instead of <text style="font-size:423">), Firefox display the page correctly.

As far as I understand, Firefox should refer to the user space unit when no unit
is specified : 
" Lengths in SVG can be specified as: (if no unit identifier is provided) values
in user space -- for example, "15" " (SVG 1.1 specification).

The conclusion is that Adobe has it right : the viewport des not specify the
user spac unit, thus it reverse to pixels, thus font-size with no unit
indentifier reverse to pixels.
Firefox should follow the same rule, IMHO.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the
http://www.euro-fam.org/eurunion/documents/Codecision.psvg?LG=EN&LJ=FR page


Actual Results:  
2. text does display ata ridiculous size.

Expected Results:  
Should have display like that :
http://www.euro-fam.org/eurunion/documents/Codecision.svg?LG=EN&LJ=FR

See comment above

Comment 1

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

This is invalid according to the CSS spec.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286101 ***