For over a month now, Opera has been the only major browser out there to currently support SVG natively (Firefox 1.1 will support a subset of SVG Full 1.1 but Fx 1.1 will likely be released in August). Opera has a great SVG Tiny implementation, but I'm posting my wish-list of things to fix for that implementation. Read the rest of this entry ...
I wrote a tutorial that delves into how to do shapes, colours and paths in SVG, it is in Draft state here. The tutorial has been tested on Opera 8, Firefox 1.1 (Alpha) and Internet Explorer + Adobe SVG Viewer. Please give it a read and send me comments.
Wow, lots of hullabaloo regarding Microsoft's recent announcements that they will have deep and broad support for RSS in the next release of Windows (Longhorn) and Internet Explorer 7. My take is that RSS is a good means of communicating a large variety of content to users and Microsoft is right: We have only scratched the surface of syndication as a technology and it is changing the way people use the web, even from a couple years ago. Not that this is any major revelation. Lots of people feel that way, Microsoft is just the first company to blow all this hot air that they are "betting all their chips" on this technology. Read the rest of this entry ...
The IEBlog posted an item today telling web developers that rounded corners would not be implemented in the upcoming Internet Explorer 7 and then linked to a 3-month-old article that would teach us all how to do rounded corners in IE 5/6 today. Um, what? Did I miss something? Is it still 2002? Read the rest of this entry ...
Spurred on by Rob reporting Firefox 1.1 Alpha test results on the SVG test suite, I decided to do the same for Opera 8. Opera only claims to support SVG Tiny, so my tests were restricted to the SVG Tiny suite. I ended up being pleasantly surprised. Read the rest of this entry ...