Testing animation of empty string values

Hi WG.

For ACTION-2074 I am to test how implementations handle empty string
values in animation values="" attributes, and whether the semicolon at
the end of that list is allowed or has any affect.

Opera 9.5:

  ▪ Doesn’t allow empty strings in values="".
  ▪ Allows a semicolon at the end of the values="" list and doesn’t
    treat the (possibly zero-length) string after it as a value.
  ▪ Allows an empty string in to="".
  
Firefox 3:
 
  ▪ No animation support.

Batik 1.8pre:

  ▪ Doesn’t allow empty strings in values="" or to="" (there’s a parsing
    bug in there where the semicolon after the empty string up to just
    before the next semicolon is considered to be the next value).
  ▪ Allows a semicolon at the end of the values="" list and doesn’t
    treat the (possibly zero-length) string after it as a value.

WebKit nightly:

  ▪ Does allow an empty string value in the middle of values="", but if
    there is a trailing semicolon then the final value just before the
    semicolon (and the empty string value after it) is ignored.
  ▪ An empty string value in to="" is supported.

ASV3 and Renesis I don’t have available to test right now.  The file I
used for testing is:

  http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/ua-tests/animate-values-semicolon.svg

The updating numbers don’t mean anything (they just show the test is
running really).  You just need to watch out for the animated xlink:href
values that are shown as the test progresses, and match them up with
what’s in the values="" in the source, to see how the implementation
handles the empty strings and semicolons.

-- 
Cameron McCormack ≝ http://mcc.id.au/

Received on Thursday, 3 July 2008 07:42:57 UTC