Via the svg-developers mailing list, the following report on the SVG Open 2005 conference has been written.
If you've been reading this blog at all, you know how geeked I am about vector graphics. SVG seems to be a promising technology that will open the web and desktop to vector graphics for everyone, while Flash is a technology that has been ubiquitous for almost a decade. Well, it looks like the Khronos Group is getting serious about hardware-accelerated vector graphics support. The OpenVG 1.0 specifications were released last month. Read the rest of this entry ...
Kevin posts some thoughts about the EvolGrafix presentation that happened today here. It sounds like EvolGrafix has a little too much talk and not enough to show at this point...
Firefox 1.5 is not even out yet, but right now there are some pretty significant pieces of work going on to update the SVG functionality available (I'm assuming these patches will not make it into Firefox 1.5, but I could be wrong). In fact patches exist for:
As soon as I get some time I'll try to remember how to build Firefox (last time I tried there were some errors), get some of these patches, apply them, and test it out. Should be fun...
The SVG Open 2005 conference starts today in the Netherlands. Kurt Cagle plans to blog about the conference. This year's conference is a bit out of reach for me (both geographically and technically) but I hope to attend next year if it's somewhere closer by. This is the fourth annual SVG conference, so from a conference point-of-view, it is still pretty young.