654684 - SVG: the onload event is not called for nested elements

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 571134

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Anton Vodonosov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

Example code:

<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8' standalone = 'no'?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" onload="alert('onload for root')" width="1096" height="576" preserveAspectRatio="none" viewBox="0 0 1100 576">
  <g onload="alert('onload for g')" id="FILL" fill="GRAY" stroke="GRAY" stroke-width="1" opacity="1">
    <rect onload="alert('onload for rect')" x="0" y="0" width="24" height="10"/>
  </g>
</svg>

Here we specified 3 onload hanlders: for the root element SVG, and for two nested elements.

When we open this in FireFox 4.0.1 only one onload works - of the root element.
Other two does not work.

According to the SVG specification, all the onload's should work. In IE and FF 3.5 they work.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Save the SVN code provided in the description to a file.svg.
2. Open this file in FireFox 4.0.1


Actual Results:  
You see only one alert 'onload for root'.

Expected Results:  
You should see 3 alerts: 'onload for root', 'onload for g', 'onload for rect'

Comment 1

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

This functionality has been removed for performance reasons. I'm sorry but you'll just have to use onload on the svg element.

Comment 2

[Mark Turner]

This functionality cannot be duplicated merely by using the svg element.
The level of detail is there for a reason.
It adds functionality possibilities.
Is the performance rational still reasonable?