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?


§331 · January 19, 2007 · Games, Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · 4 comments ·


Early in 2005 I started getting interested in SVG, a web standard for vector graphics on web pages. My efforts in this direction were first sparked by a friend and later by the fact that modern browsers like Firefox and Opera have introduced SVG support. This entry is to serve as a guide so people can learn from my experiences. It was originally published in Dec 2005, but I will continue to update it as more items occur to me. It was last updated in Jan 2007.

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§188 · January 19, 2007 · Firefox, JavaScript, Opera, Software, SVG, Technology, Web, XML · 20 comments ·


Via Ajaxian comes this article discussing the merits of custom XML attributes instead of over-loading the class attribute for functional purposes. Read the rest of this entry ...

§327 · January 9, 2007 · Software, SVG, Technology, Web, XML · Comments Off on DOM Sticking Again ·


Two years ago I kicked off this blog in a very understated way. By WordPress's calculations, I've had 306 posts in that time. Here are some highlights of the two years: Read the rest of this entry ...

§325 · January 5, 2007 · Life, Linux, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on My Blog Turns Two Years Old ·


Since I haven't done one of these for awhile, I thought I'd kick off the New Year by giving a recap of the last several months in the land of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). I'll start with the bad news. Read the rest of this entry ...

§280 · January 3, 2007 · Adobe, Linux, Software, SVG, Technology, Web · Comments Off on SVG News Digest: 2007-01-03 ·