802571 - SVG Image with <image> tags does not show up in Firefox 16 when referred through GWT application

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Tilak Sharma]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20121010144125

Steps to reproduce:

I created a new svg file (NewImage.svg) with <image> tags:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN'
          'http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd'>
<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'
     xmlns:xlink='http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink'
     width="224px" height="54px" viewBox="-0.58 -1.162 224 54">
  <image xlink:href='background.svg' width='224' height='54' />
  <image xlink:href='foreground.svg' x='12' y='12' width='32' height='32'/>
</svg>


Actual results:

When I open this NewImage.svg in Firefox directly, it opens perfectly.

However, when I refer to this svg file from inside my GWT application, the NewImage.svg does not load in Firefox 16. It does load correctly in IE 9.


Expected results:

The NewImage.svg file which has <image> tags should have loaded in Firefox even when referred from inside a GWT application

Comment 1

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

> However, when I refer to this svg file from inside my GWT application, the NewImage.svg does not load in Firefox 16. It does load correctly in IE 9.

I don't understand. Can you explain to someone that hasn't used GWT what you're doing?

Are you trying to display the comment 0 file as an image itself?

Comment 2

[Tilak Sharma]

I am trying to use the NewImage.svg file (which has <image> tags) as an image itself.

I just use the path of this file to a JavaScript library, which inturn displays the image.

Comment 3

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Images have to be encapsulated as single objects, they can't reference other external images for privacy reasons.

Comment 4

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

You could make the inner images data urls. See bug 628747 for the privacy issues.