SVGAs expected, it was announced today that IE9 will support SVG, DOM Events, XHTML, CSS3 Selectors and more. There were even a couple surprises in there (HTML5 Video!). This finally puts IE9 in the realm of a “modern browser”! Hey! Someone on the IE team needs to send me a SVG image of the IE logo. The one I have is pretty sucky (no offense, Sam). Hopefully that image has an, ahem, gradient in it…
Now read on for more details on their SVG implementation (hey, I know why you’re here). Read the rest of this entry …
Although I’ve been a Mac convert for well over a year now, the family still uses a Dell Windows XP laptop from a few ages past. That laptop is slow, has a tendency to sound like a running dishwasher and its plastic casing creaks as you type. I’m not a cruel man. So this weekend we decided to pick up a new laptop and that came with a whole whack of stuff for me to comment on. Hello bloggy my old friend… Read the rest of this entry …
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P.S. I should mention that this figure does not take into account any user that has a SVG plugin installed or authors who have used the excellent SVG Web or ExplorerCanvas shims, so this is really a worst-case number.
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 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.