406312 - SVG textPath startOffset cannot be animated any more by version 3 beta 1

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: SVG, defect, P2)

Description

[SamyDagan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

Using SVG scripting, version 2 animates startOffset of textPath. Version 3 beta 1 does not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Animate by scripting startOffset of textPath.
2.Run with version 2 of Firefox, it works.
3.Run with version 3 beta 1, it does not.
Actual Results:  
The textPath remains motionless with version 3 beta 1. Applying alert(); one can see that the values of strartOffset are changing as expected, but this is not seen   on the screen. No errors are issued. 

Expected Results:  
See above.

Comment 1

[SamyDagan]

Attachment: SVG file including an example of animating startOffset of textPath

One can try the attached file with Firefox version 2, and with Firefox version 3 beta1, and see the difference.

Comment 3

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Attachment: patch

Comment 4

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Attachment: remove replaced code

Comment 5

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

This also fixes bug 319345

Comment 6

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

checked in.

Comment 7

[SamyDagan]

Thanks. Samy Dagan

Comment 8

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

verified fixed using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008050614 Minefield/3.0pre and the testcase