I've admired Sam Ruby's desire to use inline SVG for his blog - I think his clip art adds visual appeal to his site. I wish I had Sam's artistic sensibilities/patience (or that slipping into a scotch-induced trance would help). But artistic ability aside, I have been struggling with inline SVG as a concept since then. I thought I'd outline the advantages and disadvantages to inline SVG as I see them. Read the rest of this entry ...

§366 · April 25, 2007 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Inline vs. Referenced SVG ·


Thanks to Mike, I now have Webkit SVG results to show at my SVG Support page. Current (April 2007) Webkit builds score a 55%, which is roughly comparable to Firefox 3 nightlies. Firefox 3 adds support for some Filter Effects, while Webkit currently has better Text support. For a first release, this will be fantastic - congratulations to the Webkit team!

§363 · April 24, 2007 · Apple, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on Webkit SVG Results In · Tags: , ,


I published my results of running ten different SVG implementations through the SVG Test Suite. Read the rest of this entry ...

§362 · April 21, 2007 · Adobe, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 197 comments · Tags:


Sometimes it's not obvious how a document is being interpreted by a web browser. For instance, you might write some XHTML 1.1, but the browser actually interprets it as HTML 4. You may be expecting the browser to be using Standards Mode (recommended), but it might actually be using Quirks Mode because you missed the DOCTYPE statement. I'll periodically update this blog entry to keep track of how to do this stuff in a variety of browsers. Read the rest of this entry ...

§360 · April 19, 2007 · Firefox, JavaScript, Microsoft, Opera, Software, Technology, Tips, Web · Comments Off on Knowing What The Browser Is Doing ·


Here's a mess of notes from the World Of SVG that you might find exciting (I certainly did!) Read the rest of this entry ...

§359 · April 18, 2007 · Google, QuickLinks, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 2 comments ·