I've been following Shelley Powers' blog for about half a year now, ever since I discovered her on some feed searches for SVG. Today she posts some post-mortem thoughts on her latest book about Web Graphics. In addition, she makes a bold statement: "I will no longer compensate for limited or broken specification support in browsers after January 1, 2010" Read the rest of this entry ...
Just like last year, December 1st is supposed to be Chicago's first snowstorm. So I've turned on the snow in my blog header. Now you can keep warm by hovering around your CPU.
I was looking at the comments from last year's entry and it's good to see that we've now seen definite progress from Safari's side on the whole SVG front. Still no word from IE though 🙁
As per these requests I made a screencast of running the SVG video demos on Opera 9.5. My apologies for the crappy video - it's only my second attempt. Also, I should stress that the framerate of the video on Opera is perfect (any jitteriness is the screencast's fault, not Opera's).
The Opera web browser really puts the other guys to shame when implementing open standards. I wholeheartedly agree with Doug that it's a shame that I can't customize Opera's chrome the way I can with Firefox (you can only go so far with User JavaScript and widgets) - it would easily become my default browser (and not just the browser I test advanced features in). Anyway, those guys at Opera have released a development build of Opera 9.5 that supports video in the browser. This is a big step forward for the open web. Read the rest of this entry ...
Lots of talk these days about allowing SVG inline with text/html content. I thought I'd try and put some thoughts down. Read the rest of this entry ...