Open Bug 416437 Opened 16 years ago Updated 2 years ago

style attributes in SVG are parsed twice in the normal case

Categories

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
CSS Parsing and Computation
Type:
defect

Tracking

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People

(Reporter: dbaron, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: perf) 

As described in bug 414550, style attributes in SVG are parsed, serialized, and reparsed in the normal static case.  This is a performance hit, and can turn minor serialization bugs into more serious correctness bugs.

The SVG code seems to be doing this to re-resolve relative URIs in the style attribute.  We could actually probably do that in the style system much faster, without serialization and reparsing (and I think some other code could benefit as well).

Alternatively, SVG could store the style attribute as a string until BindToTree is called.
Severity: normal → S3
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