SVG allows you to do quite a bit in terms of graphics in the browser that was not possible without a special plugin like Flash. This post describes how I enabled dragging of entities around the screen. Read the rest of this entry ...
I first learned of OpenLaszlo when I began learning a bit about SVG. The idea behind OpenLaszlo is to write rich web applications in XML + JavaScript. It is very similar in concept to Mozilla's XUL, Microsoft's XAML and Adobe's MXML. Read the rest of this entry ...
Kurt Cagle mirrors my own thoughts on the Opera 9 Preview (changelog).
Kurt, your code sample is white-on-white...
I agree Opera 9 Technical Preview is an impressive achievement by anyone's standards. I would have been impressed with only the improved SVG support but all the other stuff (Canvas2D, XSLT,WebForms 2.0, XPath, xml:id, etc) leaves me floored. I started my migration from Firefox to Opera this week. We'll see how it goes - my experiences might make for interesting reading...
SVG 1.2? Is there any news on whether SVG 1.2 spec itself has made any progress? I doubt Opera would release something that didn't have a spec in a final review state...
I've had this happen a couple of times now, so I know I'm not alone: I monitor a lot of web feeds (RSS/Atom/RDF) using Mozilla Firefox's "Live Bookmarks" feature. Firefox is not the best web feed viewer, so I also recently started use RSSOwl, but my list of feeds in the browser far outweighs the list of feeds that I track using RSSOwl, and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to export the Live Bookmarks to OPML for importing into RSSOwl. Thus, I haven't made the switch over to a dedicated web feed aggregator... yet... Anyway, as part of my morning ritual, I usually go get a nice and hot beverage, open up Firefox and check all my feeds to see if there are any new entries I might like to read. The way it's supposed to work, Firefox lists the most recent entries first, so I usually just remember the title of the last entry I've read and base my scanning off of that. This can lead to problems though. Read the rest of this entry ...
A new draft of the Compound Document Framework and WICD Profiles was released last week by the W3C and is available here. CDF/WICD (or whatever they end up calling it) is an important specification that will help to define how browsers should deal with "compound documents". An example is an XHTML document that has SVG elements embedded in it. As XML continues to replace HTML as the language of the web, such a specification becomes more and more important.
And it's great bedside reading, too!