I came across Laurent Grégoire's CVS Quick Reference Card. I needed something quick and handy to put on my thumb drive, so I figured this would do. Only problem is that my Windows box only understood Adobe's PDF format. I've grown to really dislike PDF, primarily for the fact that the Adobe Acrobat Reader takes forever to come up and has become bloated. Since I have Adobe Acrobat Professional Version 8.0.0 installed here, I thought I'd see what formats I could convert the file into for doing some minor edits to the file Read the rest of this entry ...

§418 · January 11, 2008 · Adobe, Software, Technology · Comments Off on Adobitrocity ·


Every so often I find some time to update my SVG Support page with results from a more recent nightly build of Firefox. Tonight I tried to do the same thing for WebKit nightlies and ran into difficulties in Windows. Read the rest of this entry ...

§417 · January 9, 2008 · Safari, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Webkit Nightly Builds for Windows – Working? ·


Big news in the blogosphere - the IEBlog finally divulged some real details about Internet Explorer 8: An internal build of IE8 supports the Acid2 Test, meaning a great deal of HTML and CSS-related quirks have been mopped up. Read the rest of this entry ...

§416 · December 19, 2007 · Microsoft, Software, Technology, Web · 2 comments · Tags: ,


I've been following Shelley Powers' blog for about half a year now, ever since I discovered her on some feed searches for SVG. Today she posts some post-mortem thoughts on her latest book about Web Graphics. In addition, she makes a bold statement: "I will no longer compensate for limited or broken specification support in browsers after January 1, 2010" Read the rest of this entry ...

§414 · December 2, 2007 · Microsoft, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 2 comments ·


Just like last year, December 1st is supposed to be Chicago's first snowstorm. So I've turned on the snow in my blog header. Now you can keep warm by hovering around your CPU.

I was looking at the comments from last year's entry and it's good to see that we've now seen definite progress from Safari's side on the whole SVG front. Still no word from IE though 🙁

§412 · December 1, 2007 · Safari, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 2 comments ·