The SVG Wiki was once maintained at svg.org but had been overrun by spammers by March of this year. Rob and I had tried to clean it up a little but the open nature of a wiki made this a losing battle when the other side has automated spambots. Unfortunately this wiki was referenced all over the web, including by the W3C itself. Doug Schepers has made an effort to shuttle the wiki over to its new home at http://www.svg-whiz.com/wiki/ and secured it (accounts by request only). I'm glad to see this great resource has a new lease on life!
It's interesting when two of my interests find a merging point. Here is one such example which talks about putting SVG cartoons onto mobile devices. Read the rest of this entry ...
Today I learned a bit about Microsoft's early attempt at a markup language for vector graphics: VML. I was surprised to find out that IE 5 and 6 both support it, yet (as far as I know) no one uses it on the web. At the very least it is a great solution to the rounded corners problem that's been mentioned on the IEBlog and here. Incidentally, the IEBlog post above has a VML example that turned me onto it in the first place. Read the rest of this entry ...
For over a month now, Opera has been the only major browser out there to currently support SVG natively (Firefox 1.1 will support a subset of SVG Full 1.1 but Fx 1.1 will likely be released in August). Opera has a great SVG Tiny implementation, but I'm posting my wish-list of things to fix for that implementation. Read the rest of this entry ...