Houston, the SMIL has landed

This day was five-and-a-half years in the making: the initial patch to add SMIL support has landed on Mozilla trunk. SMIL is the Open Web way of doing declarative animation, I use it on my site here and there via FakeSmile. This Mozilla patch is partial support for SMIL within SVG only (not HTML). Note that SMIL support is disabled in the build by default, as roc says "we should enable it when we've got enough implemented that we wouldn't feel embarrassed about shipping it. " - but this is a significant step forward.

Thanks and congratulations go to Daniel, Brian and Robert! Also thanks to Erik and Ian for putting some SMIL tests into Acid3. Not that this had anything to do with it. Oh, no. 😉

Opera has supported SMIL in SVG for a couple years now. Anyone want to place bets on who will be the second to release a browser that supports it? Mozilla? Apple? Google? Microsoft? What, did I say something funny?

§516 · January 15, 2009 · Firefox, RIA, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 5 comments · Tags: , , , ,

HTML5 += Intertwingly

Sam Ruby has just been appointed co-chair of the HTML5 Working Group. In addition to being an early adopter of HTML5, Sam has been a loud proponent of distributed extensibility within HTML and a vocal critic of the entire HTML5 process in general. I'm glad to see Sam is putting his money where his mouth is. It will be very interesting to see how this will affect the dynamics of the Working Group.

A warm congratulations to Sam and a heartfelt Good Luck!

§514 · December 15, 2008 · Software, Technology, Web · 3 comments · Tags: , ,

Keyboard Synergy on a Macbook Pro

Ok, so I've made the switch from primarily Windows to primarily OS X on my MacBook Pro. However, I still need to occasionally boot into Windows or have Windows running in VMWare Fusion. This is causing stress injuries in my hands and head because of the differences in keyboard handling. Read the rest of this entry ...

§512 · December 12, 2008 · Microsoft, Software, Technology, Windows · 2 comments · Tags: , , ,

From Gibbon to Heron…

Ok so last night before heading to bed, I finally felt brave enough to click that "Upgrade to 8.04 LTS" button that's been sitting in my Ubuntu 7.10 Update Manager for a month or two. This first part was relatively painless: About a gig worth of files downloaded, unzipped, installed, some packages uninstalled, some questions about overwriting a couple config files. However, today was the fun stuff where I actually tried to get it all working again. Read the rest of this entry ...

§511 · December 9, 2008 · Linux, Software, Technology · 4 comments · Tags: , , ,

First Post!!1!

To help kick off the new SVG community site, I thought I'd write up a tutorial and post it there. It's a quickie and it's maybe a couple years out of style, but it's got some pretty pictures: Gelcap Buttons in SVG. (Some people call these 'aqua buttons').

Disclaimer: The PlanetSVG website is still largely under construction, so please be gentle. Rob is working on a Drupal theme and we still have to plan out the overall flow of the site.

§510 · December 1, 2008 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 2 comments · Tags: , , , ,

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