The problem I've encountered so far when deploying SVG content is that, of the various major configurations of SVG-enabled browsers out there, the most popular configuration (Internet Explorer + Adobe SVG Viewer 3.0) only seems to work nicely with the <embed> tag, but all other implementations (Opera and Mozilla Firefox) work nicely (and sometimes ONLY) with the <object> tag and NONE currently work at all with the <img> tag. What a hairy mess! Let's come up with a simple solution... Read the rest of this entry ...
So I finally crystallized all my new hard-won JavaScript
...well, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration.
Anyway, I updated my website style a little. If you still see a blue background on http://www.codedread.com/, you need to refresh your stylesheet (shift-click on Reload/Refresh in most browsers). Hopefully it looks a little better. Still need to get the forums looking similar to the main site and this blog.
Well, I finished authoring my first SVG tutorial today called "SVG Kickstart". You can read it here. It's 5 fairly short pages, but hopefully it gives a good justification for the practical need for SVG on the web today. Future tutorials will likely delve into the more "flashy" effects one can get from SVG...
I mentioned before how I was cissifying my site. Well, I spent about an hour or so updating the rest of my site to be fully XHTML and CSS compliant by using the W3C validator tools (XHTML Validator and CSS Validator).
Sure, web standards are nice, but should it REALLY matter if I have a list element inside a paragraph element or if my form elements are not wrapped inside a paragraph? I guess my point is: after making sure that my site is compliant to the latest web standards out there, where are the fruits of my anal retentive labor? There's not one user-discernable difference as far as I could tell.
On the other hand, after spending about 20 minutes debugging the way Opera was rendering my fancy new SVG buttons, I figured out why their browser was having a problem, patched my code and posted the bug in their forums. Now that's what I call a worthwhile effort.