I wrote a tutorial that delves into how to do shapes, colours and paths in SVG, it is in Draft state here. The tutorial has been tested on Opera 8, Firefox 1.1 (Alpha) and Internet Explorer + Adobe SVG Viewer. Please give it a read and send me comments.
For several months in late 2001 and early 2002, I was thoroughly hooked to Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and loving every minute of it. The games in the Elder Scrolls series are single-player role-playing games with vast maps, a strong central story and the freedom to abandon the central story and develop your character in interesting (and sometimes unexpected) ways in the uncounted side quests. This gives the compelling illusion that the game is open-ended and that your character has a lasting impression on the game world and the computer-controlled people in it. Read the rest of this entry ...
Wow, lots of hullabaloo regarding Microsoft's recent announcements that they will have deep and broad support for RSS in the next release of Windows (Longhorn) and Internet Explorer 7. My take is that RSS is a good means of communicating a large variety of content to users and Microsoft is right: We have only scratched the surface of syndication as a technology and it is changing the way people use the web, even from a couple years ago. Not that this is any major revelation. Lots of people feel that way, Microsoft is just the first company to blow all this hot air that they are "betting all their chips" on this technology. Read the rest of this entry ...
After seeing this on the Scobleizer I decided to do it myself just out of curiosity. On the right there should be a blogmap of the general location where I'm located (you may have to scroll down a bit). Click on Bloggers Nearby if to see who else is around my neck of the woods. I retrieved my general lat/long from this site because I couldn't figure out a quick way to do it in Google Maps or Mapquest...
The IEBlog posted an item today telling web developers that rounded corners would not be implemented in the upcoming Internet Explorer 7 and then linked to a 3-month-old article that would teach us all how to do rounded corners in IE 5/6 today. Um, what? Did I miss something? Is it still 2002? Read the rest of this entry ...