Firefox error rendering an SVG image to HTML5 canvas with drawImage
As mentioned, this is an open bug caused by limitations on what Firefox accepts as specification for SVG sizes when drawing to a canvas. There is a workaround.
Firefox requires explicit width and height attributes in the SVG itself. We can add these by getting the SVG as XML and modifying it.
var img = new Image();
var src = "icon.svg";
// request the XML of your svg file
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.open('GET', src, true)
request.onload = function() {
// once the request returns, parse the response and get the SVG
var parser = new DOMParser();
var result = parser.parseFromString(request.responseText, 'text/xml');
var inlineSVG = result.getElementsByTagName("svg")[0];
// add the attributes Firefox needs. These should be absolute values, not relative
inlineSVG.setAttribute('width', '48px');
inlineSVG.setAttribute('height', '48px');
// convert the SVG to a data uri
var svg64 = btoa(new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(inlineSVG));
var image64 = 'data:image/svg+xml;base64,' + svg64;
// set that as your image source
img.src = img64;
// do your canvas work
img.onload = function() {
var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
canvas.width = this.width;
canvas.height = this.height;
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);
var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
return dataURL;
};
}
// send the request
request.send();This is the most basic version of this solution, and includes no handling for errors when retrieving the XML. Better error handling is demonstrated in this inline-svg handler (circa line 110) from which I derived part of this method.
Firefox does not support drawing SVG images to canvas unless the svg file has width/height attributes on the root <svg> element and those width/height attributes are not percentages. This is a longstanding bug.
You will need to edit the icon.svg file so it meets the above criteria.