The Web has changed us forever. It's not just about how we experience digital media or how we purchase things or even all that free porn. Yes it's also given us new ways to satisfy our egos, express our ideas, publish works, report information, research, share new capabilities. But I'm also talking about fundamental things: new ways of communicating, learning, meeting people, keeping in touch with people, even grieving.
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 ...
I've updated my marketshare spreadsheet for February 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG/Canvas: 37.92%
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 then had a much cooler idea. Read the rest of this entry ...