Feature detection of foreignObject in SVG

feature-detection, svg

Solution

This should work if you want to use foreignObject because it integrates html content...

<switch>
  <g requiredFeatures="http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/feature#Extensibility" requiredExtensions="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <foreignObject >
    </foreignObject>
  </g>
  <text font-size="10" font-family="Verdana">
     No foreignObject
  </text>
</switch>

The requiredExtensions part proposed to w3c and this was their response. Firefox does implement this, but I havent tested anything else though. You may be able to get away with just the requiredFeatures attribute as Erik suggests.

If you want to test in javascript try

var supported = document.implementation.hasFeature("http://w3.org/TR/SVG11/feature#Extensibility", "1.1"); –

Problem

I am using the foreignObject element in SVG, however IE9 does not support this element. I am looking at a way the detect this feature. Modernizr does not detect this feature and it seems I can not use createSVGForeignObject (not available on SVGSVGElement) like they do for rectangle (createSVGRect). Thanks!

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