Well, unfortunately I had to wait until I got home from work to try out the Opera 9 TP2 due to this unfortunate bug. However, it was by far worth the wait. Read the rest of this entry ...
Apparently Opera 9 TP2 will be released tomorrow. I'm excited about this because in numerous bug reports and emails that I've sent to Opera developers over the past 4 months, lately all I hear is "This is fixed in our current development build". Well now I'll get a chance to taste that - let's hope we see numerous improvements in the SVG implementation. Opera Widgets sounds like a really cool concept too, taking on Mozilla's XULRunner approach.
klog has written a library that handles drawing "about 80% of basic shapes" for SVG using nothing but DHTML. I haven't tried it out yet, simply because all the browsers on all of my machines support SVG (Internet Explorer with the Adobe plugin, of course). I might actually uninstall ASV on one of my machines just to see how his library works. Read the rest of this entry ...
Johan writes of JSON feeds, which sounds like the nifty idea of making your data available as a chunk of JavaScript that can be easily used by anyone. Apparently del.icio.us already does this. The beauty of this is that, since web developers are already writing in JavaScript, they can just include your chunk of JavaScript in their own web applications and do something cool with it. No parsing of XML or other encoding formats required. Read the rest of this entry ...
I've been writing a bit of PHP, SVG and JavaScript. Creating nested XML nodes with a procedural language can be a pain, PHP is no exception here. I wrote a quick PHP function to help with my SVG node creation. Read the rest of this entry ...