I try to summarize the most relevant news from the world of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) every month. Here's the digest for May-June 2006. Read the rest of this entry ...
Via Scoble, Microsoft has updated Live Local (aka "Virtual Earth"). I took a look and was delighted to find that in the Firefox version, they are using inline SVG to draw driving directions. Read the rest of this entry ...
The Laszlo blog announced yesterday that OpenLaszlo will use and contribute to Dojo. For the uninitiated, Dojo is one of the many DHTML/Ajax toolkits that help DHTML developers get their work done. Since OpenLaszlo is moving towards supporting more runtimes (other than Flash) and DHTML is one of those "runtimes", this sounds like a great idea (rather than have the Laszlo team write their own toolkit from scratch). The fact that they'll be bringing their contributions back to Dojo sounds like a win-win.
Via Arve. Opera releases the first Beta for Version 9 of their browser today. Big news from my perspective is support for the audio object. Read the rest of this entry ...