The W3C has released the first draft of a new specification today, XML for Binary Streams (XBS). The basic idea seems to revolve around taking a binary stream and encoding it as XML. Read the rest of this entry ...
I've been writing a bit of PHP, SVG and JavaScript. Creating nested XML nodes with a procedural language can be a pain, PHP is no exception here. I wrote a quick PHP function to help with my SVG node creation. Read the rest of this entry ...
I was going over the Game Developer's Conference schedule for 2006 and came across this session entitled "Collada for the PlayStation3". The reason it caught my eye is that Collada is a specification put forth by the Khronos Group, which I had read about in my SVG research. Read the rest of this entry ...
After Rob called my code ugly, I decided to update my technique for embedding SVG into HTML and it finally crystallized into a nice solution for me. I hesitate to say "embedding" because that might imply that I condone the <embed> tag, when in fact I only use it at gunpoint. Rob came up with a suitable term for including SVG in a HTML document: inlaying (as opposed to inlining). Read the rest of this entry ...
I've been thinking of doing something like this for awhile: render my web statistics in on-the-fly SVG graphs via some XSLT. Rob did something like this way back when he first started his blog. I know Mint has the powerful "Fresh View" pepper that uses SVG to display its data visually. Andrew Gregory has had his home-brewed solution for a little while now. But this one just came up in Technorati, it includes the 3 small files you need to tweak. Fun "milk carton" WordPress template, too.