Oh, I forgot to mention a cool thing that happened at the beginning of the year while I was so busy: Wikipedia inched a step closer to having an in-browser editing experience for its impressive collection of vector image files via an experimental MediaWiki Extension. The extension was put together by Brion Vibber of StatusNet and WikiMedia fame. Fingers crossed for this to one day appear in Wikipedia! 🙂
I've been busy at my day job not launching code, but over the weekend I had some fun converting kthoom's unzip/inflate algorithm from using binary strings to using Typed Arrays. Typed Arrays mean native binary data that is accessible to JavaScript in the browser, making operations like unzip much much faster (like 4x). Read the rest of this entry ...
It appears that comments on my blog have been screwed up now for probably at least a month. When you try to post a comment it 404s. You can no longer see comments on a post. I simply don't have the time to look into this at the moment, so my apologies up front. I don't know if I've been hacked or if something in my theme broke in an automatic update of WP.
If you need to get ahold of me there's always email, Google Chat, Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz. Least those don't get hacked... much.
I’ve updated my marketshare spreadsheet for Nov 2010 charting the percentage of web users who can view SVG and Canvas: 44.57%
I'm also tracking what percentage of web users can see SVG in an <img> tag: 18.41%
Happy Holiday season to y'all! This is our first Christmas in California and it's a bit of an adjustment. A wet Christmas is not a white Christmas - but at least there's no snow shoveling for me this year.
I hope you all have a successful new year in twenty-eleven. Build more! Code more! Write more! Do more! Those are certainly my goals! 🙂
By the way, I found that Christmas Tree image by Nicu on Open Clip Art Library using Google Image Search, opened it in SVG-edit, moved the star to the top of the tree and changed its color to yellow, scoured it and then saved it to my web server. Took about 10 minutes in total!
Speaking of Christmas trees, it's probably high time for me to update my own red and green online decoration. Soon!
Oh, and as I write more posts on my blog, you should be able to see Google indexing the SVG images from my site here. Note that these are not raster fallbacks. Hope that means something to you. 🙂