294932 - Link around <object> embedding SVG doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Volkmar W. Pogatzki]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050519 Firefox/1.0+

<a href="foo">
  <object type="image/svg+xml" data="bar" />
</a>

Object with type "image/svg+xml" prevents anchor from being rendered as link.

Comment 1

[Volkmar W. Pogatzki]

Attachment: Link around svg object doesn't work.

Comment 2

[Takeshi Kurosawa :takenspc]

This is not reduced in Linux + Cairo Firefox Build.
Resolved ?

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050614 Firefox/1.0+
ID:2005061412

Comment 3

[Takeshi Kurosawa :takenspc]

This bug is not reproduced with WindowsXP + GDI+ Firefox(Trunk).

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050701
Firefox/1.0+

RESOLVED/WORKSFORME?

Comment 4

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

When you view the attachment, you can click on the flower things and it'll take
you to pogatzki.net? For me it shows the link in the status bar, but it does
nothing if I click on it.

Comment 5

[Takeshi Kurosawa :takenspc]

(In reply to comment #4)
> When you view the attachment, you can click on the flower things and it'll take
> you to pogatzki.net? For me it shows the link in the status bar, but it does
> nothing if I click on it.

I'm sorry, I had misunderstood.
So, this bug is still reproduced.

Comment 6

[Volkmar W. Pogatzki]

(In reply to comment #4)
> When you view the attachment, you can click on the flower things and it'll take
> you to pogatzki.net? For me it shows the link in the status bar, but it does
> nothing if I click on it.

You can also use the tab button on your keyboard. This way, after two or three
hits the drawing gets focused and when you press ENTER it will be opened.
Also, when you right-klick on the drawing you are offered "This Frame ...".

Are other objects also handeled as frames?

Comment 7

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

>Are other objects also handeled as frames?

everything that's neither an image nor a plugin

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Perhaps events should "bubble out of iframes"?

Comment 9

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

*** Bug 311097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[[:Aleksej]]

Reproduced here in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5, under Debian linux.

Comment 11

[Darin Fisher]

Not going to block 1.8.1 for this bug, but we'll happily consider a low-risk, baked-on-trunk patch.

Comment 12

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

I think events should not bubble out of SVG documents.

I do think that SVG *images* should be treated as atomic to events; events should target the image element, not the SVG elements inside the image.

Comment 13

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That seems reasonable....  I guess we'd need to hack the ESM to handle that?

Comment 14

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

Actually, I think the cleanest way would be to modify nsSubDocumentFrame::BuildDisplayList to not descend into SVG image documents.

Comment 15

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

... For event handling, that is. It will still need to descend for painting :-)

Comment 16

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

I think this is actually INVALID, and it would be a bug if it did work.

Comment 18

[jonathan chetwynd]

os x
webkit nightly works as link with status bar text
moz status bar, no link 
opera no status bar, no link

Comment 19

[jonathan chetwynd]

apologies for changing title, but I would have found this bug if html was present.

thanks

Comment 20

[Dave Sparks]

http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-WICD-20070718/#link-activation (WICD Core 1.0 18 July 2007 section 5.1 Link Activation) seems relevant to this bug.

I've worked round the problem by adding
style="position:relative;z-index:1;background-color:transparent!important"
to the <a> tag and
style="position:relative;z-index:-1"
to the <object> tag.  This seems to work for Firefox, Seamonkey, Safari and Epiphany; but not for Opera where the link is still inactive.

Comment 21

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

(In reply to comment #20)
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-WICD-20070718/#link-activation (WICD Core 1.0 18
> July 2007 section 5.1 Link Activation) seems relevant to this bug.

Not if we're not implementing WICD it doesn't.  And I don't think we should be; its primary use case is mobile phone walled gardens, not the Web.  (I was on the CDF working group for a little more than the first year of its existence.)

Comment 22

[rememberthedot]

Even if Mozilla isn't interested in implementing the entire WICD specification, this one tiny bit really should be implemented. In Firefox's current implementation, there is no good way to make embedded SVG images link to a certain web page, which is one reason why practically no one is actually using SVG images on the web. If this bit of the specification was implemented, then it would remove a major obstacle to widespread SVG adoption.

Comment 23

[Nico]

Using map/usemap on object tag doesn't not work either when the object data
is a SVG image. Is it a related bug? Is there a way to make a SVG image clickable
**without** editing/transforming the SVG file?

Comment 24

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Use <html:img> or <svg:image>.

Comment 26

[Alex]

I made a link around the object and add styles for firefox only
@-moz-document url-prefix(){
  .your_object{
    pointer-events: none;
}
}
For chrome I want to have link inside of svg to have a hover effect from svg working.