SVG Time Waster: Worms

I came across Jamie's blog after he left a comment on my SVG Solitaire post. Apparently he's been a little busy with SVG too. If you've got 10 minutes and the Firefox 1.5 browser, why not go try a game of Worm SVG.

Great work! Feature Requests:

  1. Make it work in IE+ASV. Keyboard input didn't work for me.
  2. Make 'P' pause the game - useful if someone interrupts you at work, ahem...
  3. Make the worm and dots a little less blocky, more sexy, this is vector graphics after all. At least make the worm a "polyline" and use stroke-linecap="round". Or maybe a "path" so that you only have to change one "d" attribute every time you move the worm...
  4. Make it work faster in Opera 9 TP1 (if possible), see polyline/path idea above
  5. Make a server-side high score tracker (I've been trying to figure out how to do this in a hack-proof way myself)

My record (after 3 tries) was 200 points.


§212 · January 23, 2006 · Games, QuickLinks, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on SVG Time Waster: Worms ·

Two Routes

Via Sean Inman. A great essay by Paul Graham entitled How To Do What You Love, also has some overlap with Rob's latest entry revealing this key: Always Produce.

§209 · January 19, 2006 · Life, QuickLinks, Tips · Comments Off on Two Routes ·

Web Stats a la SVG

I've been thinking of doing something like this for awhile: render my web statistics in on-the-fly SVG graphs via some XSLT. Rob did something like this way back when he first started his blog. I know Mint has the powerful "Fresh View" pepper that uses SVG to display its data visually. Andrew Gregory has had his home-brewed solution for a little while now. But this one just came up in Technorati, it includes the 3 small files you need to tweak. Fun "milk carton" WordPress template, too.

§203 · January 5, 2006 · QuickLinks, Software, SVG, Technology, Web, XML · Comments Off on Web Stats a la SVG ·

Via Rail + WiFi

Via Erik's Rail News. Way back in June 2005 I published this article to vent my frustrations at auto commuting between cities in the U.S. and my desire for an improved rail system in the U.S. One of the improvements I mentioned that I'd like to see was WiFi on the trains. This article dated Nov 2005, states that Canada's ViaRail system between Québec and Windsor is planning that very thing, though it's not clear if they'll charge for it.

On a somewhat related note, RAILnews.net doesn't appear to provide any RSS/Atom feeds for their news, what a shame...


§201 · January 4, 2006 · Life, QuickLinks · Comments Off on Via Rail + WiFi ·

Another Bandwagon

Here's an article on X3D. X3D is VRML reworked into XML and is starting to garner some attention. I think it would be cool to combine X3D and SVG into a Compound Document such that X3D is used for your 3D object models and SVG is used for your 2D textures on those models as well as the GUI.

§191 · December 15, 2005 · QuickLinks, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Another Bandwagon ·

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