How well do you know your geography? I really suck at it, but I'm getting better by playing these two web browser games:

These SVG games work in modern browsers like Opera 9+ and Firefox 1.5+ and were written by orinoco and published on his Opera blog. I gave him some pointers to get them working in IE+ASV (I updated my guide with these tips too).

He really did some fantastic work - he started with a blank world map on WikiMedia Commons drawn in Inkscape which had all geography stuffed into a single path element and then he broke them out so that each country was its own path, then manually identified them all! It's not an easy task, but it was made easier because the graphics format was an open, well-documented standard in plain text. I hope he continues to experiment with SVG.

Can someone test them in Konqueror and Safari nightlies?


§331 · January 19, 2007 · Games, Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 4 comments ·


Early in 2005 I started getting interested in SVG, a web standard for vector graphics on web pages. My efforts in this direction were first sparked by a friend and later by the fact that modern browsers like Firefox and Opera have introduced SVG support. This entry is to serve as a guide so people can learn from my experiences. It was originally published in Dec 2005, but I will continue to update it as more items occur to me. It was last updated in Jan 2007.

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§188 · January 19, 2007 · Firefox, JavaScript, Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Web, XML · 20 comments ·


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) ·


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 ·


Here's a couple cool items I found in the world of Scalable Vector Graphics. Read the rest of this entry ...

§303 · December 5, 2006 · Firefox, Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on SVG News Digest 2006-12-05 ·