Adobe Unofficially Clarifies Its SVG Position

Jon Ferraiolo of Adobe responds to concerns about Adobe's less-than-clear statements about SVG the "morning after" the post-Macromedia acquisition. Jon says that "SVG-Full" support will not be disrupted - - not exactly a glowing recommendation, but not exactly a death sentence. I had speculated on this yesterday, so Jon's response soothes my fears somewhat. He says that "Adobe's primary attitude towards SVG is fully positive" and the FAQ mention of SVG-T only "was *not* meant to imply anything negative about SVG in the desktop space" but I still maintain that zero mention of Adobe SVG Viewer is not a good sign.

Anyway, if the SVG 1.2 specs could just make it into Recommendation Status we'd see what implementors like Adobe and EvolGrafiX can do...

[Update: The day I posted this, the W3C SVG Working Group released its Third Last Call draft for SVG Tiny 1.2 with a comment cutoff date of December 28th. Now that's service!]

§190 · December 7, 2005 · QuickLinks, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Adobe Unofficially Clarifies Its SVG Position ·

CDF Not Swallowed

Thank you Anne for clarifying my confusion between "activities" and "working groups". It was indeed the W3C announcement that caused my confusion when I misinterpreted the following quote:

The Compound Document Formats Working Group chaired
by Kevin Kelly (IBM) moves to this Activity, and continues to develop a
framework for combined documents

as an indication that the CDF WG would be absorbed into either the Web Applications or Web API Working Groups. Ok, I learned something new today...

§181 · November 17, 2005 · QuickLinks, Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on CDF Not Swallowed ·

A Couple Quick Links

  • Apparently the internet won't be split up anytime soon.
  • Via PCWorld. Google Base is now live. Just remember: "All your base are belong to us"...
  • Sony is having a real PR nightmare lately
  • Via Anne. The W3C is forming new groups that focus on Web APIs (like the existing XMLHttpRequest) and Rich Web Applications. Some interesting points:
    • The Web APIs Working Group will first be documenting things already "in the field": the XMLHttpRequest object, timed events (i.e. EcmaScript's setTimeout()), the Window object (i.e. interaction with the browser). Let's hope they don't deliberately try to break Internet Explorer's implementation of such things as they've done in the past. The more interesting APIs will be delivered later such as APIs for persistent local storage and file uploading...
    • Will W3C use the WHATWG's already-written specifications such as the Web Applications 1.0 spec?
    • The Web Application Formats Working Group will be striving to use an existing application format ("Mozilla's XUL, Microsoft's XAML, Macromedia's MXML or Laszlo Systems' LZX") and combine it with other existing technologies such as XHTML, CSS, SVG, etc. This is a great idea (i.e. we do not need a NEW format), but their tentative milestones seem a bit off: "First draft of requirements during October. First draft of specification during November. Candidate Recommendation 4th quarter of 2006.". It also means that there will be one winner and many losers...
    • The Web Application Formats Working Group seems to have swallowed the Compound Document Format Group.
§179 · November 16, 2005 · QuickLinks, Software, Technology, Web · Comments Off on A Couple Quick Links ·

Pandora and Riding The Crap Wave

Via Scoble (and Google's Blogsearch shows this meme is spreading around the blogosphere today). Pandora is an online service that streams music to you. Read the rest of this entry ...

§178 · November 11, 2005 · Entertainment, Life, QuickLinks, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Pandora and Riding The Crap Wave · Tags:

A Little Internet Archeology

A couple of years ago, Rob passed me a link to a hilarious/fascinating web documentary/experiment. Up until yesterday, I had completely forgotten about it, but having somehow awakened that memory I decided I wanted to read it again. What resulted was a little "internet archeology", payoff at the end... Read the rest of this entry ...

§177 · November 10, 2005 · Entertainment, QuickLinks, Technology, Web · 9 comments ·

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