SVG mouse events work in Firefox4 but not in IE8

Question

I have a standalone SVG file and a separate Javascript file to deal with mouse events triggered from the SVG file. The projects works well with Firefox but somehow I got problem

Answer 1

As Spudley's answer says, IE8 doesn't support SVG.

If the image is appearing on your page, thereare a few possibilities:

• Something in your development stack may be converting it to a raster image (such as a PNG): right click the image and select "Properties", then see what value is reported for "Type".
• You may have a browser plugin installed that renders SVGs (but does not provide the JavaScript interface). Try running IE8 in Safe Mode.

Internet Explorer 9 does support SVG, however, so an IE upgrade, where possible, will solve that problem.