I've been consistently unable to get SVG and HTML to talk to one another when the SVG appears in the W3C supported <object>. Don't know if I'm having server config issues or not, but have not wanted to give up altogether. As I mentioned earlier, <embed> works like a charm in every browser I've tried. It is the only technique I've found that is supported by all browsers, but alas, it is not by according to the specs. The world of browsers and the world of standards seem to be almost nonoverlapping when it comes to SVG <--> HTML communication.
However, I've cobbled together a little ditty using frames which does almost what I want it to: http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/frameSVG.html. It works in FF1.5, Opera and IE6/7(ASV) (and incidentally gets around the nasty ActiveX need to click to activate) In it there is a frameset. The frameset uses a script to build HTML into the first frame; it then assigns the URL of the second frame to a minimal SVG document. The minimal SVG document consists of the following: <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"; xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; onload="top.receive(document)"> <rect id="RECT" x="0" y="0" height="100%" width="100%" fill="#edb"/> </svg> In the frameset, is the function receive() which recognizes the SVG Document (passed to it from the SVG itself). SVGdoc is then used later for some simple dynamic stuff that succeeds in modifying the SVG doc from HTML and in running functions in the HTML from events in the SVG. function receive(D){ SVGdoc=D SVGRoot=SVGdoc.documentElement var s="top.makeCircle(evt.clientX,evt.clientY)" SVGRoot.setAttribute("onclick",s) } What remained a bit distressing about this experiment, is that I was unable to locate the SVG Document from IE using framename.document or document.getElementById(frameid).getSVGDocument() or framename.contentWindow or framename.contentDocument or any imaginable permutation of objects, attributes, children and parents. As soon as I was relatively sure that I was looking in the right place, IE gave me an access violation error (even though both documents were hosted locally from the same directory). It would be nice to allow the HTML doc to perform surgery on an arbitrary SVG doc without having to have the SVG doc send its permission to do so, as in this example. So my question is, is there anyway in IE to find (for subsequent manipulation) the document inside an HTML frame, when the document happens to be SVG? A) framename.document works just find when I have HTML in there instead of SVG, B) framename.document gives the access violation C) neither Opera nor Firefox has this problem with framename.document and SVG content. David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
