Via Arve, Apple has made a strong statement that they have IPR on the Canvas functionality. What does it mean? Read the rest of this entry ...
Orinoco has put up a couple more SVG games that you can play inside your browser (either Firefox 1.5+ or Opera 9+). Read the rest of this entry ...
A few days ago, tor posted this announcement/plea to the community. It's a grim reality that Firefox's SVG implementation is not where it should be (some big pieces missing). Though I'll be happy with the improvements in SVG support coming in Firefox 3 (some cool filter effects like Gaussian Blur), I was really hoping to see at least Declarative Animation make it into Firefox 3, even working pieces of it. Read the rest of this entry ...
Zack Rusin has been posting some interesting tidbits lately about his amazing work on the upcoming Qt 4.3. His latest post made me ponder using SVG as a screen mockup format between developers... Read the rest of this entry ...
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?