First Post of 2006! This is now officially a multi-year blog. 😉

I decided to take my own advice at the bottom of this article and update my JavaScript dragging technique to be more generic and library-like so that it's theoretically easy to make SVG entities draggable. It's done now and you can see the results on this demo (works only in Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer + Adobe SVG Viewer). I've included some nested objects so you can see how they move when they are dragged.

Draggable SVG Library Demo


§198 · January 2, 2006 · JavaScript, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Dragging in SVG, Part Two ·


I decided to get a little festive on my blog. If you have a browser that supports SVG you should see what I mean. It should be fun for other special occasions too (think Google's graphic).

Have A Great Holiday Season!

§197 · December 22, 2005 · Life, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 1 comment ·


Rob recently wrote about Test-Driven Development, a lecture that will be given at the Game Developer's Conference (GDC) in 2006 from High Moon Studios. High Moon is also giving another talk about Agile Development and something called "scrum". Curious, I decided to take a look. Read the rest of this entry ...

§195 · December 22, 2005 · GDC, Software, Technology · 1 comment ·


SVG allows you to do quite a bit in terms of graphics in the browser that was not possible without a special plugin like Flash. This post describes how I enabled dragging of entities around the screen. Read the rest of this entry ...

§194 · December 21, 2005 · JavaScript, Software, SVG, Technology, Web, XML · 13 comments ·


David Hyatt has posted in the Surfin' Safari blog that Safari nightly builds now have partial support for SVG 1.1. You can see the status of the Safari SVG implementation here. This marks the third browser that allows you to integrate HTML and SVG and script it via an XML DOM. Read the rest of this entry ...

§193 · December 19, 2005 · Firefox, Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Safari Nightlies Now With SVG ·