307871 - Text editing using editable="yes"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: SVG, enhancement)

Description

[bz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050712 Firefox/1.0+

There is no possibility for "text editing".
Without text editing it is not possible to make XAML like WebApps.

There are some methods to make text editable - but they all do not work:

1.) Tiny-SVG 1.2 editable="yes"
problem: not implemented, maybe not realistic for FF 1.5

2.) HTML Form element in/on top of SVG
problem: Emedding HTML in SVG not possible
To have <xhtml:input type="text"/> in SVG would be great.

3.) Javascript solution (ASV 3.0 compatible)
problem: "getCharNumAtPosition" is needed, but not implemented in dear park a2.
Cursor positioning with pointer device is without this function not
possible. The Cursor must be moved used keyboard to the correct position.

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To have the editable text in an HTML area beside the SVG Image is not
a solution. A good UI needs in-place editing.

thanks

Bernhard

Reproducible: Always




This is not a bug. I am responding to :
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/tor/archives/2005/09/firefox_15_and_svg.html

Comment 1

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Method 2 is now available via foreignObject see bug 326966.
getCharNumAtPosition was implemented in bug 318597 so Method 3 should work too.

Perhaps we might therefore mark this bug as fixed now.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Changing summary to focus on editable="yes".

As Robert says, foreignObject allows you to use <xhtml:input type="text"/> in SVG now, and getCharNumAtPosition was implemented in bug 318597.

Comment 3

[Andreas Neumann]

the title should actually read as "Text editing using editable="simple"" - note the "simple" instead of "yes".

I agree it would be a very useful feature for Firefox 4. SVG fonts support is more important, though.

Comment 4

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

We should handle editable SVG text using contenteditable, as HTML uses.  See bug 889234.