Adobe Allows SVG Viewer Download Indefinitely

Via svg-developer mailing list, Adobe has announced that they will keep the Adobe SVG Viewer browser plugin available to download from their site indefinitely (redacting their earlier announcement to remove the download in 2009). This is good news for SVG:

In response to customer feedback, Adobe has extended download
availability once again for Adobe SVG Viewer.

Adobe does not currently have plans to remove Adobe SVG Viewer from
the Adobe.com download area.

Thank you, Adobe!

This news comes right after the official SVG Logo has been chosen by a bunch of companies invested in SVG. Looking at the finalists, I have to say I love Joshua Warren's 3rd place designs (especially the 4th column of orange ones). Oh well, the contest is over and the new logo is this 8-point lotus thing by Harvey Rainer. I have to admit that this logo is nice, though I can't find any good SVG versions of it yet. The design present at svglogo.com is very boring at the moment, but the animated one at the bottom of this page is kinda cool, even if he does, ironically, use Flash.


§320 · December 18, 2006 · Adobe, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Adobe Allows SVG Viewer Download Indefinitely ·

Making Firefox the Default Browser in OpenSUSE (KDE)

I like Konqueror 3.5.5, I think it's come a long way, but I've been getting crashes every so often when playing some more complicated SVG samples, so I really want to have Firefox or Opera as my default browser for those times when I'm using Akregator and click on a link in a feed. I couldn't figure out in OpenSUSE 10.2 how to change my default browser through YaST, but I did discover on the internet that KDE has its own application to control its settings: kcontrol. Read the rest of this entry ...

§319 · December 17, 2006 · Firefox, Linux, Opera, Software, Technology, Tips, Web · Comments Off on Making Firefox the Default Browser in OpenSUSE (KDE) ·

Setting Up MythVideo For Playlists

I have a bunch of cartoons and film shorts on my hard drive. Now that I've installed Suse, I have video/audio output to my TV/Stereo, and I've set up Myth, I wanted to figure out how to play a series of videos from a playlists (.pls) file. Here's how I did it. As a bonus, I also set up Myth with an option to randomize a playlist as well. Read the rest of this entry ...

§315 · December 17, 2006 · Linux, Software, Technology, Tips, Video · 3 comments ·

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SVG 1.1 Test Suite Released

Chris Lilley just announced that the SVG specification now has an updated Test Suite.

I'll probably spend some time going through the test suite in cool web browsers like Opera, Firefox and even Konqueror (now that I have a box running OpenSUSE) to see how compliant each browser is. It will be interesting to see what has changed between Firefox 2 and the Firefox 3 nightly builds.


§316 · December 14, 2006 · Firefox, Opera, QuickLinks, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on SVG 1.1 Test Suite Released ·

openSUSE 10.2 released!

Go pick up your DVD at download.opensuse.org. Let's just see how good Opera's BitTorrent client is, shall we? Of course, it's always polite to look for it at the closest Mirror.

§313 · December 8, 2006 · Linux, QuickLinks, Software, Technology · 1 comment ·

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