See that new SVG-edit icon made by some Opera dude who converted SVG-edit into a standalone widget? Pretty awesome huh? We'll be using that icon in SVG-edit 2.5, Bicorn. Kudos to those browser folk for helping spread the word.

Speaking of SVG-edit 2.5, I had this great idea awhile back to make text editing more awesomer: instead of using svg:text elements, I'd use HTML elements living inside foreignObject inside SVG. That would instantly give you wrapping rich text, bulleted lists, heading styles - because those browsers, they're getting pretty good at displaying plain ol' HTML.

I then had a much cooler idea. Read the rest of this entry ...

I like Mercurial (hg). The obvious advantage of a distributed version control system (dvcs) is that each repository is equal. Among many other things, this is useful if you ever need to restore a repository (and all of its history) from a failed hard drive.

Way back in the day (wow nearly five years ago!), I made the transition of my personal documents into Subversion. Around about the time my central Subversion repository no longer became accessible to me I decided to investigate Mercurial as a new option. One thing that I like is that the repos are accessible over http, so it's pretty easy to set up. Read the rest of this entry ...