Comparison of layout engines (Scalable Vector Graphics)

The following tables compare SVG compatibility and support for a number of browser engines.

Explanation of tables[edit]

See comparison of browser engines for the full list: Adobe SVG Viewer, Batik, eSVG and Renesis are SVG-Plugins.

Values[edit]

These indicate the level of support for the given item in each engine. By default, the most recent version of the engine is implied. However, a specific version number can be listed; when this indicates full support, it's the initial version of the engine fully supporting the item.

Value	Meaning
Yes	Fully supported
No	Has never been supported
Partial	Only some values are supported
Incorrect	Not implemented correctly in all cases
Experimental	May be incomplete or buggy
Nightly build	Currently in development; full support is expected
Depends	Only supported for the specified conditions
Dropped	No longer supported

SVG version support[edit]

			MSHTML	Gecko	WebKit	Blink	Presto	KHTML	Prince	Amaya	Batik	Renesis	LeonLabs
SVG	1.1	Tiny (SVGT)	5.0^{[t 1]}	Partial^{[g 1]}	Partial	Partial	1.0	Partial^{[note 1]}	Partial	Partial	Mostly	Partial	Partial
		Basic (SVGB)					Mostly
		Full					Mostly
	1.2	Tiny	No	No	No	No	2.1	No	?	?	Partial	Partial	Partial
	1.2	Full					No		No	No	No	No	No
sXBL											Yes
XBL 2.0											No

Embedding[edit]

This table shows support status of different ways of embedding SVG into HTML, for different browser engines.

	MSHTML	Gecko	WebKit	Blink	Presto	KSVG	Amaya
`<img>`	5.0^{[t 1]}	2.0^{[g 2]}	Yes^{[w 1]}	?	2.1	No	5.1
`<embed>`		1.8	Yes^{[w 2]}		Partial^{[note 2]}	Partial^{[note 3]}	5.2
`<object>`		1.8	Yes^{[w 2]}		Yes	Partial^{[note 3]}	5.1
CSS `background-image`		2.0^{[g 3]}	No		2.1	No	?
CSS `list-style-image`		2.0^{[g 3]}	Partial^{[note 4]}		2.1		?
as Favicon	No	41^{[g 4]}	No	80^{[b 1]}	2.1.1		?
in data URIs	5.0	Yes	Yes	?	No	?	?

SVG 1.1 support[edit]

Comparison of various Scalable Vector Graphics element support.

Profile	Element	MSHTML	Gecko	WebKit^{[w 3]}	Blink	Presto	KSVG	Prince	Amaya	Adobe SVG Viewer	Batik	Renesis	LeonLabs
Structure Module
Tiny	`svg`	5.0^{[t 2]}	1.8	522	?	1.0	Yes	Yes	Yes	1.0	Yes	Yes	1.0
	`g`					2.0		Yes	Yes			1.0
	`defs`							6.0	?
	`desc`						No	No	?
	`title`						No		?	3.0
	`metadata`						?		?	2.0
	`use`			Yes^{[w 4]}			No	6.0	Yes	1.0		0.6
Basic	`symbol`			522			No	6.0	?	1.0		0.6
Conditional Processing Module
Tiny	`switch`	Yes	1.8	522	?	2.0	?	No	?	2.0	Yes	No	1.0
Image Module
Tiny	`image`	5.0^{[t 2]}	2.0^{[g 5]}	522	?	2.0	No	5.1	4.0	1.0	Yes	0.5	1.0
Style Module
Tiny	`style`	5.0^{[t 1]}	1.8	522	?	2.0	?	Yes	Yes	1.0	Yes	0.6	1.0
Shape Module
Tiny	`circle`	5.0^{[t 2]}	1.8	522	?	2.0	Yes	Yes	4.0	1.0	Yes	1.0	1.0
	`ellipse`
	`line`
	`path`
	`polygon`
	`polyline`
	`rect`											0.6
Text Module
Tiny	`text`	5.0^{[t 1]}	1.8	522	?	2.0	Yes	5.1	4.0	1.0	Yes	0.7	1.0
Basic	`tspan`		1.8					Yes	4.0			0.7
	`tref`		No^{[g 6]}					No	6.3			0.6
	`textPath`		1.8.1						4.0			No
Full	`altGlyph`		Partial^{[g 7]}^{[g 8]}	Partial		2.2	?			2.0
	`altGlyphDef`		No	No		2.2	?			2.0
	`altGlyphItem`					?	?			No
	`glyphRef`					2.2	?			2.0
Profile	Element	MSHTML	Gecko	WebKit	Blink	Presto	KSVG	Prince XML	Amaya	Adobe SVG Viewer	Batik	Renesis	LeonLabs
Marker Module
Full	`marker`	5.0^{[t 1]}	1.8	522	?	2.0	?	6.0	?	3.0	Yes	1.0	1.0
Color Profile Module
Full	`color-profile`	No	No^{[g 9]}	No^{[w 5]}	?	No	No	No	?	3.0	Yes	No	1.0
Gradient Module
Basic	`linearGradient`	5.0^{[t 1]}	1.8	522	?	1.0	Yes	6.0	?	1.0	Yes	0.5	1.0
	`radialGradient`					2.0		6.0	?
	`stop`					1.0		?	?
Pattern Module
Basic	`pattern`	5.0^{[t 1]}	1.9	522	?	2.0	Yes	?	?	2.0	Yes	0.5	1.0ttt
Clip Module
Basic	`clipPath`	5.0^{[t 1]}	1.8	Mostly^{[w 6]}	?	2.0	?	?	?	1.0	Yes	0.6	1.0
Mask Module
Basic	`mask`	5.0^{[t 1]}	1.9	522	?	2.0	?	?	?	1.0	Yes	No	1.0
Filter Module
Basic	`feBlend`	6.0^{[t 3]}	1.9	Nightly build^{[w 7]}	?	2.0	?	No	?	1.0	Yes	No
	`feColorMatrix`						?		?				1.0
	`feComponentTransfer`						?		?
	`feComposite`						?		?
	`feFlood`						?		?
	`feGaussianBlur`						?		?				1.0
	`feImage`						?		?				1.0
	`feMerge`						?		?
	`feOffset`						?		?				1.0
	`feTile`						?		?
Full	`filter`			Nightly build^{[w 7]}			?		?
	`feConvolveMatrix`			Nightly build^{[w 8]}			?		?
	`feDiffuseLighting`			Nightly build^{[w 9]}			?		?
	`feDisplacementMap`			Nightly build^{[w 7]}			?		?
	`feMergeNode`						?		?
	`feMorphology`						?		?
	`feSpecularLighting`			Nightly build^{[w 10]}			?		?
	`feTurbulence`			Nightly build^{[w 11]}			?		?
	`feDistantLight`			No			?		?
	`fePointLight`						?		?
	`feSpotLight`						?		?
	`feFuncR`			Nightly build^{[w 7]}			?		?
	`feFuncG`						?		?
	`feFuncB`						?		?
	`feFuncA`						?		?
Profile	Element	MSHTML	Gecko	WebKit	Blink	Presto	KSVG	Prince XML	Amaya	Adobe SVG Viewer	Batik	Renesis	LeonLabs
Cursor Module
Full	`cursor`	No^{[t 4]}	No^{[g 10]}	Partial	?	No	?	?	?	No	Yes	0.6
Hyperlinking Module
Tiny	`a`	Yes	1.8	522	?	1.0	Yes	5.1	8.2	1.0	Yes	0.6	1.0
View Module
Basic	`view`	No	15.0^{[g 11]}	Partial	?	2.0	?	?	?	3.0	Yes	No	1.0
Scripting Module
Tiny	`script`	Yes	1.8	522	?	2.0	?	?	?	1.0	Yes	0.5
Animation Module
Tiny	`animate`	No	2.0^{[g 12]}	No	?	2.0	Yes	No	Yes	1.0	Yes	No	1.0
	`set`		2.0^{[g 12]}	Partial			Yes
	`animateMotion`		2.0^{[g 13]}				No						1.0
	`animateTransform`		2.0^{[g 12]}				No						1.0
	`animateColor (deprecated)`		No^{[g 14]}				Yes
	`mpath`		2.0^{[g 13]}	522			?		?	2.0
Font Module
Tiny	`font`	No	No^{[g 15]}	Yes	?	2.0	?	?	?	2.0	Yes	1.0	1.0
	`font-face`					1.0	?	?	?			Dropped^{[note 5]}
	`glyph`						?	?	?			1.0
	`missing-glyph`						?	?	?			1.0
Full	`hkern`			Nightly build^{[w 12]}		2.0	?	?	?			No
	`vkern`			Nightly build^{[w 13]}		2.0	?	?	?
	`font-face-src`			Yes		No	?	?	?	No
	`font-face-uri`					2.0	?	?	?
	`font-face-format`					No	?	?	?		No
	`font-face-name`					No	?	?	?		Yes
Extensibility Module
Full	`foreignObject`	No	1.9	522	?	2.0	?	No	7.2	No	No	No	No
Profile	Element	MSHTML	Gecko	WebKit	Blink	Presto	KSVG	Prince XML	Amaya	Adobe SVG Viewer	Batik	Renesis	LeonLabs

Notes[edit]

↑ KHTML does not have any native image support. This is by design: in Konqueror, multimedia files are handled by KParts. The KDE project also developed an SVG plugin for Konqueror, known as KSVG.^{[o 1]}
↑ <embed> — Presto does not scale the image properly if its size is given in relative units.
↑ <embed>, <object> — KSVG does not scale the image properly if its size is given in relative units.
↑ list-style-image — WebKit does render the image if its size is given in relative units.^{[w 1]}
↑ Renesis 0.7 supports that feature, but because of the rewrite of the plugin Renesis 1.0 doesn't support this any longer.^{[o 2]}

References[edit]

"SVG 1.1 Conformance Suite Implementation Status".
"W3C SVG Test Suite Results — Summary results of W3C test suite on multiple browsers, different versions and browser plugins. Last updated 2011-03-24". Retrieved 2012-10-02.
"When can I use... SVG support tables in desktop and mobile browsers". Retrieved October 2, 2012.

MSHTML references[edit]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 Yu, Jennifer (2010-03-18), SVG in IE9 Roadmap, Microsoft
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Internet Explorer 9 Preview Builds, Microsoft
↑ Internet Explorer 10 Guide, Microsoft
↑ 2.1.20 [SVG11] Section 16.12, Cursor Module, Microsoft

Gecko references[edit]

"SVG in Firefox". Retrieved June 11, 2009.

↑ Bug 512501 - (svg11tests) We should pass all the W3C SVG 1.1 Full tests, Mozilla
↑ Bug 276431 - external SVG not loaded from img tag, Mozilla
↑ Bug 231179 - SVG images in CSS, Mozilla
↑ Bug 366324 - SVG site icons (favicons, shortcut icons) support, Mozilla
↑ Bug 272288 - Allow SVG source for <svg:image>, Mozilla
↑ Bug 273171 - Text 'tref' not supported, Mozilla
↑ Bug 456286 - should altGlyph elements fall back to behaving like tspan?, Mozilla
↑ "Bug 571808 - Implement altglyph". Mozilla. 13 June 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
↑ Bug 427713 - embedded color profiles in svg are ignored, Mozilla
↑ Bug 177193 - Implement the 'cursor' element and the 'cursor' attribute, Mozilla
↑ Bug 512525 - Implement the <view> element, Mozilla
↑ ^12.0 ^12.1 Bug 482402 - (enablesmil) Enable "svg.smil.enabled" pref by default, Mozilla
↑ ^13.0 ^13.1 Bug 436418 - SVG SMIL: Implement "animateMotion", Mozilla
↑ Bug 436296 - SVG SMIL: implement "animateColor", Mozilla
↑ Bug 119490 - Implement SVG fonts, Mozilla

↑ See "KSVG Homepage". Archived from the original on 2011-04-22. KSVG seems to be inactive as of 2012^[update].
↑ Renesis support notes (PDF), Examotion GmbH, retrieved 2008-08-04

External links[edit]

W3C SVG Test Cases for SVG Full
"Viewer matrix — A Comparison of the SVG-able layout engines and Plugins". wiki.svg.org. Archived from the original on 2010-03-25. Unknown parameter |url-status= ignored (help)

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[4] KHTML does not have any native image support. This is by design: in Konqueror, multimedia files are handled by KParts. The KDE project also developed an SVG plugin for Konqueror, known as KSVG.^{[o 1]}

[8] <embed> — Presto does not scale the image properly if its size is given in relative units.

[9] <embed>, <object> — KSVG does not scale the image properly if its size is given in relative units.

[11] list-style-image — WebKit does render the image if its size is given in relative units.^{[w 1]}

[38] Renesis 0.7 supports that feature, but because of the rewrite of the plugin Renesis 1.0 doesn't support this any longer.^{[o 2]}

[trident-svg-roadmap-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 ^1.6 ^1.7 ^1.8 Yu, Jennifer (2010-03-18), SVG in IE9 Roadmap, Microsoft

[ie9-preview-15] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Internet Explorer 9 Preview Builds, Microsoft

[ie10-svg-24] Internet Explorer 10 Guide, Microsoft

[ms-cursor-30] 2.1.20 [SVG11] Section 16.12, Cursor Module, Microsoft

[2] Bug 512501 - (svg11tests) We should pass all the W3C SVG 1.1 Full tests, Mozilla

[5] Bug 276431 - external SVG not loaded from img tag, Mozilla

[10] Bug 231179 - SVG images in CSS, Mozilla

[12] Bug 366324 - SVG site icons (favicons, shortcut icons) support, Mozilla

[17] Bug 272288 - Allow SVG source for <svg:image>, Mozilla

[18] Bug 273171 - Text 'tref' not supported, Mozilla

[19] Bug 456286 - should altGlyph elements fall back to behaving like tspan?, Mozilla

[20] "Bug 571808 - Implement altglyph". Mozilla. 13 June 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2014.

[21] Bug 427713 - embedded color profiles in svg are ignored, Mozilla

[31] Bug 177193 - Implement the 'cursor' element and the 'cursor' attribute, Mozilla

[32] Bug 512525 - Implement the <view> element, Mozilla

[moz-anim-33] 12.0 ^12.1 Bug 482402 - (enablesmil) Enable "svg.smil.enabled" pref by default, Mozilla

[moz-animatemotion-34] 13.0 ^13.1 Bug 436418 - SVG SMIL: Implement "animateMotion", Mozilla

[35] Bug 436296 - SVG SMIL: implement "animateColor", Mozilla

[36] Bug 119490 - Implement SVG fonts, Mozilla

[webkit-wh100-6] 1.0 ^1.1 Bug 16167 - SVGs with width and height 100% fail to render when used as <img> or CSS image, WebKit

[7] Bug 12095 - Image (and thus SVGImage and PDFDocumentImage) need size-negotiation, WebKit

[14] "The WebKit Open Source Project - SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)". Retrieved 24 February 2014.

[16] Bug 12499 - External <use> xlink:href references do not work, WebKit

[22] Bug 6037 - WebKit+SVG does not support <color-profile> element, WebKit

[23] Bug 55361 - transform attribute for ClipPath not implemented, WebKit

[webkit-filters-25] 7.0 ^7.1 ^7.2 ^7.3 Bug 32224 - Turn on (SVG) Filters support, by default., WebKit

[26] Bug 5861 - feConvolveMatrix filter is not implemented, WebKit

[27] Bug 32197 - feDiffuseLighting filter is not implemented, WebKit

[28] Bug 32199 - feSpecularLighting is not implemented, WebKit

[29] Bug 5864 - feTurbulence is not implemented, WebKit

[39] Bug 38407 - SVG hkern implementation incomplete, WebKit

[40] Bug 38663 - SVGFont's VKern implementation missing, WebKit

[13] Issue 294179: Support SVG favicons, Google

[3] See "KSVG Homepage". Archived from the original on 2011-04-22. KSVG seems to be inactive as of 2012^[update].

[37] Renesis support notes (PDF), Examotion GmbH, retrieved 2008-08-04

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Comparison of layout engines (Scalable Vector Graphics)

Contents

Explanation of tables[edit]

Values[edit]

SVG version support[edit]

Embedding[edit]

SVG 1.1 support[edit]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

MSHTML references[edit]

Gecko references[edit]

WebKit references[edit]

Blink references[edit]

Other references[edit]

External links[edit]

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