I think Inkscape needs to change its versioning scheme. Knowing nothing else, what would you think of a product that went from version 0.45 to version 0.46? Only minor changes? About half-done? One percent improvement? Not very polished? All of these are far from the truth with the latest preview of Inkscape 0.46. Read the rest of this entry ...

§431 · February 23, 2008 · Software, SVG, Technology · Comments Off on Perception Is Everything · Tags: , ,


I've corrected some bugs, tweaked the theme in a few places to improve it - but I haven't done anything major yet with the blog user interface, leaving it as a simple "stream of entries". I'm trying to decide the things I should show and then I'll work on how to present them. What are all the different ways people use blogs? Read the rest of this entry ...

§427 · February 21, 2008 · Life, Software, Technology, Web · 10 comments · Tags:


Sander asked me to post a list of bugs that I found as a result of working on my new theme. Here they are. Read the rest of this entry ...

§426 · February 20, 2008 · Firefox, Opera, Safari, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 5 comments · Tags: , , ,


I've been tinkering at a new theme for my website since the Christmas holidays and finally got around to flipping the switch this weekend. I decided to try my hand, for the first time, at real XHTML served as application/xhtml+xml but with PHP content negotiation to text/html for poor ol' Internet Explorer. Read the rest of this entry ...

§425 · February 18, 2008 · Firefox, Opera, Safari, Software, SVG, Technology, Web, XML · 16 comments · Tags: , , ,


Lots of continued discussion about Internet Explorer and Microsoft's support of web standards. Sam Ruby continues to finesse his SVG-via-Silverlight solution (improvement: use createElement() and then some XSLT to transform from SVG's XML elements to XAML's). Shelley Powers continues to finesse her ultimatum (ultimatae?) to Microsoft. I thought I'd post a few loose predictions of what I think IE8 will have when released. Read the rest of this entry ...

§422 · January 28, 2008 · Microsoft, Software, Technology, Web · 6 comments · Tags: ,