SVG allows you to do quite a bit in terms of graphics in the browser that was not possible without a special plugin like Flash. This post describes how I enabled dragging of entities around the screen. Read the rest of this entry ...
I came across this XML Matters article today: Beyond the DOM by Dethe Elza. For the most part if you're a seasoned web developer with years of experience with the DOM there's probably nothing new here for you, but I found a couple handy things that I'll be adding to my JS libraries that I include with my projects:
Via mozillaZine. It appears that Firefox 1.5 will include support for a series of new JavaScript functions dealing with arrays. These extensions are outside of the Ecma-262 language specification that formally describes JavaScript. Read the rest of this entry ...
The problem I've encountered so far when deploying SVG content is that, of the various major configurations of SVG-enabled browsers out there, the most popular configuration (Internet Explorer + Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0) only seems to work nicely with the <embed> tag, but all other implementations (Opera and Mozilla Firefox) work nicely (and sometimes ONLY) with the <object> tag and NONE currently work at all with the <img> tag. What a hairy mess! Let's come up with a simple solution... Read the rest of this entry ...
So I finally crystallized all my new hard-won JavaScript, DOM
and SVG knowledge into a simple proof-of-concept game. Any guesses on what game I implemented for my first go? One hint: It has to do with falling blocks... Read the rest of this entry ...