Access SVG DOM when using ASV plugin in Firefox

Question

I have to develop for Firefox using the Adobe SVG Plugin 6. When using Firefox's native SVG viewing capabilities, I can simply look at document.documentElement, which will give me the root svg element and from there I can navigate the DOM to where I want.

With the ASV in Firefox, it appears to make a skeleton HTML file with an embed in it, and I can't get past that. There don't seem to be any properties or methods from the embed that lead to the SVG document.

Supposedly there is a window.svgDocument property created by the plugin, but I can't get that to work (maybe it's IE only).

Is this possible in any way?

Answer 1

Sorry I do not believe this is possible.

After investigation I found that document.embeds[0].getSVGDocument() works with Firefox native SVG, and with IE using ASV, but not Firefox with ASV. There does not seem to be a way of accessing the SVG document of an SVG from outside the SVG when using Firefox and ASV.

This project has been abandoned and instead we will be displaying everything outside the SVG. But if someone knows a way, I would still be interested.

Answer 2

You may want to look into svgweb which adds SVG support to all browsers that don't have native support by using Flash Player.