Here are a few links to keep you busy:

  • There appears to be a formal agreement established between Microsoft and Novell to develop and support the Linux-based version of Microsoft's Silverlight, called Moonlight.
  • Speaking of Microsoft, Alex Russell of Dojo speaks of how poorly the Microsoft IE team has communicated future plans. I agree. It's not a way to build trust among web developers who you've pissed off for so long. Where's the news on the next version of IE after 7?
  • Speaking of web browsers, Apple announced the iPodTouch, which will soon put WiFi web browsing capabilities (via Safari) into the hands of many a music geek. Couple that with the iPhone now selling for $200 less and I believe that Safari is soon going to be one of the most widely used browsers out there in the Mobile Web, competing head-to-head with the Opera Mini. When Safari 3 gets out of Beta and is distributed to its millions of users, we'll suddenly see a huge increase in the number of users that can view SVG.
  • Speaking of Opera, I mentioned yesterday that Opera 9.5 Alpha 1 was out. Here are some interesting performance results, though Mozilla evangelist Asa Dotzler is quick to point out that Opera still lacks an auto-update feature.

That's it for now.

§393 · September 6, 2007 · Linux, Microsoft, Opera, QuickLinks, Safari, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 2 comments ·


I'm pretty happy with the performance of the Opera 9.5 Alpha 1 preview (Codename "Kestrel" - download here). So happy that I decided to finally try and figure out how to make a screencast today. Read the rest of this entry ...

§392 · September 4, 2007 · JavaScript, Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Video, Web · Comments Off on A Video Of Opera 9.5 Preview ·


Happy July 4th, for those who have it off... Renesis 0.7 was released today and so was Firefox 3 Alpha 6 - so I spent an hour or so wading through the SVG Test Suite to update my SVG Support page. Good news: Renesis 0.7 has made great strides in the last two months. Bad News: Despite Firefox 3 Alpha 6 having some new functionality (a couple filters were added), there were some regressions. If I can find the time, I'll investigate and open some bugs.

Another thing: I can't get Renesis to work on any of my embedded SVG files or SVG served via PHP. Something I'll have to bring up with the Emiasys guys...

§386 · July 4, 2007 · Firefox, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on SVG Support Updated · Tags:


Found this article on Wikipedia today that shows the release dates of some of the major web browsers out there. I did my bit to reorganize the table a lil, but more work needs to be done for some of the perhaps less known browsers.

But what I found most cool was this picture, which shows a timeline for all web browsers. If you can't see the picture, you must not be using a cool browser like Opera, Firefox or Safari. I won't ask you "why not"... But you can still see the picture at this link, just not as clearly. More web geek discussion ahead ... Read the rest of this entry ...

§380 · June 22, 2007 · Firefox, Opera, Safari, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 3 comments ·


Apple announced that their Safari web browser will be available for Windows going forward. That's great! I've given it a little test run this evening and here are some thoughts. Of course, the true test is always months in the making... Read the rest of this entry ...

§379 · June 11, 2007 · Safari, Software, SVG, Technology, Web, Windows · Comments Off on Safari 3 Beta First Glimpse in Windows ·