Hi Robert,
In case anyone tries to follow the https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330045. they should leave off the period at the end of that string. The example underlying the bug report comes from one of Doug Schepers' tests and uses an iframe with src pointing to an svg file. I wanted to read up on this, since I'd have been surprised if the browsers could read through the iframe used in Doug's example to actually find text inside the SVG. IE/ASV, FF, and Opera did not. Safari, interestingly, did. The result generalizes: getting rid of the iframe and just testing directly in svg gives the same results across these four browsers. While I would agree that Safari's behavior is what we'd all probably like here, is the utility of the find function spec-ed out in SVG, or across DOM's in HTML (HTML ß SVG through iframe/object/embed/image)? Does anyone know the status of search engine support for textual descriptors (either in <text> or in <desc> and <title>)? cheers David From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Longson Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 6:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [svg-developers] Re: Searchable Text and images --- In [email protected] <mailto:svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com> , "selma_ikiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I have an inkscape file with images and text overlays which annotate > the features in images. I want those text objects to be searchable in > SVG. > > For example when I open the SVG in Firefox (or any SVG viewer) and > type "blah blah", I want the text "Blah Blah" to be highlighted. But I > cannot seem to get this work. Even though the "page source" option > shows those text fields, a search does not find them. > Any suggestions? > Thanks, > Selma > Searching SVG text is not yet supported in Firefox https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330045. Patches are always welcome though :-) Best regards Robert [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/
