Thank you David
The link that you gave showed me the way The result can be seen at http://sst-svg.co.uk/toyellow8.svg Most grateful Pete (Northolt UK) --- In [email protected], "David Dailey" <ddailey@...> wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > > > A couple of things: > > 1. You might take a look at > http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/resources/svgprimer.html . It was written > at a time that the Adobe plugin for IE (often called ASV) was more relevant > (that is, before native SVG support in IE) and the examples were, except as > noted, pretty much cross browser compliant for all five browsers. > > 2. ASV really is approaching obsolescence. While I would agree that > lots of individuals do not have access to native support for SVG in IE, the > SVG spec has been largely diverging from it for almost ten years now. > > Nevertheless, the code examples in the above reference should work most > everywhere, includeing ASV. > > > > As Robert notes, Jonathan Watt's authoring notes should provide most of what > you need for getting things to work across browsers. > > > > David > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of PETER > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 4:40 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [svg-developers] Re: onmouseover effect > > > > > > > > Robert > Thank you for your prompt reply > > Looked at the page suggested - found relevant part. > > Made changes suggested > In http://sst-svg.co.uk/toyellow3.svg > > Not only does it not work in Firefox, it doesn't work in IE with Adobe > SVGview.exe > > I must be exceptionally dim today - what did I do wrong > > Pete (Northolt UK) > > --- In [email protected] > <mailto:svg-developers%40yahoogroups.com> , "Robert Longson" <longsonr@> > wrote: > > > > https://jwatt.org/svg/authoring/ is a good read for such things. In it it > says... > > > > in ASV it is possible to write code like this: > > > > evt.getTarget().getOwnerDocument().getDocumentElement(); > > > > when the DOM and SVG specifications actually define properties, not > methods, so the correct way to write this code is: > > > > evt.target.ownerDocument.documentElement; > > > > > > You'll find if you search in your example for getTarget() and replace it > by target as suggested there, your mouseover works. > > > > 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: [email protected] [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/
