TedPage: Firefox 1.5 beta 1

Firefox 1.5 beta 1 is out today, with the most interesting feature (at least to me) being native SVG support. So I downloaded and installed it.

The first SVG that I went to look at I noticed two omissions, text on a path and that the <image> tag doesn't support SVG. While I understand that text on a path can be complex (in this case it was only lines, but it can include complex curves) the recursive image call is not good. Then I went to look at this SVG which is the demo file on GPS Visualizer. I can not get Firefox to believe that is an SVG file. It wants to open another application, specifically the Adobe SVG viewer. I'm not sure what the issue is, but Inkscape does open it.

Here are the bugs: SVG Image tag and the misdetected file. I hope that all of these can be fixed for the final release, I would hate to see a disabled SVG renderer be used 10% of web users. In searching through Bugzilla, there seems to be a lot of SVG bugs.

The last thing that I noticed as odd is that the menus seem to not be the Windows native ones. It looks like Firefox may be drawing them itself. I thought that the point of Firefox was to use native widgets for performance, perhaps they're heading back to Mozilla.