837162 - Center SVG and render it with gray image background, like a normal image

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: SVG, enhancement)

Description

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

compare with Bug 376997

Since SVG files are practically images, I would suggest that you render them in the center of the page and with the default grey background.

Comment 1

[Tobias (:Tobbi) Markus]

I've created https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/centersvg/ which achieves that. We can close this bug, if you don't consider working on this.

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Tobias Markus (:Tobbi) from comment #0)
> Since SVG files are practically images

When you view them directly, they're not necessarily "practically images" -- they can have things like scripts & iframes, they can dynamically tweak their size (or add/remove a viewBox to make them occupy the full window or not).

Given that, I think the complexity & potential-for-weirdness would be high.  I'm going to boldly WONTFIX this for the time being. (particularly given that it's something that can be done with an addon -- thanks for taking the initiative on that!)