Hi Klaus and Erik thanks for your answers. Am I understand you right: Because Firefox doesn't support SMIL, the animate element is a foreign element for him?
Olaf Erik Dahlström wrote: > The elements are part of the DOM tree, since it's XML, but the 'id' attribute > is not of type ID for arbitrary XML. You could use 'xml:id' in such cases, > but I'm not sure FF supports that. The other option is to push for FF to > recognize the elements as SVG elements. > > Cheers > /Erik > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:44:49 +0100, Klaus Förster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Olaf, could it be that this is due to missing animation support in FF3. >> It seems that unknown elements are discarded and thus not part of the >> DOM tree ... >> >> Klaus >> >> Olaf Schnabel wrote: >>> >>> Hi developers >>> >>> I currently try to detect an animation element in a SVG file with >>> document.getElementById(). Unfortunately, Firefox 3.0.3 returns always >>> "null". In Opera 9.62 and IE7+ASV3.03 this example works well (I am >>> working on Windows XP SP3). Has somebody an idea how this can be? I >>> thought that getElementById() is implemented in all major browsers??? >>> >>> Here is the link to the example: >>> http://www.ika.ethz.ch/schnabel/getelementbyid_firefoxbug.svg >>> <http://www.ika.ethz.ch/schnabel/getelementbyid_firefoxbug.svg> >>> >>> Thanks for your help. >>> Regards >>> Olaf >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Olaf Schnabel >>> Institute of Cartography >>> ETH Zurich >>> Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15 >>> 8093 Zurich >>> Switzerland >>> >>> tel: ++41 44 633 3031 >>> fax: ++41 44 633 1153 >>> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:oschnabel%40ethz.ch> >>> www private: http://www.ika.ethz.ch/schnabel >>> <http://www.ika.ethz.ch/schnabel> >>> www project: http://www.e-cartouche.ch <http://www.e-cartouche.ch> >>> www institute: http://www.karto.ethz.ch <http://www.karto.ethz.ch> >>> >>> > > > -- Dr. Olaf Schnabel Institute of Cartography ETH Zurich Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 15 8093 Zurich Switzerland tel: ++41 44 633 3031 fax: ++41 44 633 1153 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www private: http://www.ika.ethz.ch/schnabel www project: http://www.e-cartouche.ch www institute: http://www.karto.ethz.ch ------------------------------------ ----- 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/