SVG Bugs

Opera 9.51

• Displays svg:title contents as a tooltip (valid)
• Does not display svg:desc contents as a tooltip (invalid?)
• Displays xlink:title attribute contents as a tooltip on a svg:element (valid)

Firefox 3.0

• Does not display svg:title or svg:desc contents as a tooltip (invalid)
• Displays xlink:title attribute contents as a tooltip on a svg:element (valid)
• Displays xlink:title or title attribute contents as a tooltip on any element (invalid)
• Mozilla Bug 273171 - Implement tref element (STILL OPEN AS OF 2008-07-06)
• Mozilla Bug 329212 - Display <svg:title> as a tooltip (STILL OPEN AS OF 2008-07-06)

Safari 3.1

• Does not display svg:title or svg:desc contents as a tooltip (invalid)
• Displays xlink:title attribute contents as a tooltip on a svg:element (valid)
• WebKit Bug 16854 - Display <svg:title> as a tooltip (STILL OPEN AS OF 2008-07-06)
• WebKit Bug 16742 - Implement xlink:title on any element (MAC ONLY. STILL OPEN AS OF 2008-07-06).

Jeff: Personally, I do not agree with the scope of this bug - xlink:title tooltips should only be displayed on links.

Renesis 1.1

• Displays svg:title element contents as a tooltip (valid)
• Does not display svg:desc element contents as a tooltip (invalid?)
• Displays xlink:href attribute contents as a tooltip on a svg:element (invalid - href is not displayed in the status bar)
• Renesis Bug 54 - xlink:title attributes not displayed as a tooltip for links (Fixed. Should be in Version 1.2)

Inkscape

• Version 0.46 shows greyed out fields for title and desc in the Object Properties dialog
• Fixed in 0.47:
  • Bug 171024 - Ability to set title and desc elements using Object Properties window
  • Bug 238093 - <title>/<desc> children of <text> elements are displayed as text in the image (problem with the above fix)
  • Bug 254850 - Description field in Object Properties not properly cleared when desc not present
  • Bug 246459 - Title and Description in Object Properties are missing mnemonics
  • Bug 238113 - <title>/<desc> are sometimes lost
  • Bug 249445 - titles and descriptions lost when saving as Plain SVG
  • Bug 254857 - No way to create root-level <title> element

• Still Working on for 0.47:
  • Bug 209199 - title: dialogue on save (First patch submitted 9/8)

Adobe SVG Viewer 3.03

• Does not display svg:title, svg:desc element contents as a tooltip
• Does not display xlink:title attribute contents as a tooltip