{"id":246,"date":"2006-04-13T10:41:04","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/?p=246"},"modified":"2006-04-13T10:41:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T16:41:04","slug":"svg-news-digest-2006-04-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/13\/svg-news-digest-2006-04-13\/","title":{"rendered":"SVG News Digest: 2006-04-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's the latest news in the world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\/\" title=\"W3C SVG Page\">Scalable Vector Graphics<\/a> (SVG).  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/yahooads.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ypn-js.overture.com\/partner\/js\/ypn.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Renesis Technology Preview #1 ... Finally<\/h3>\n<p>The biggest <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/17\/svg-news-digest-2006-03-17\/\">SVG news last month<\/a> was that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evolgrafix.com\/\">EvolGrafiX<\/a> finally released a preview of its SVG viewer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosvg.net\/forum\/read.php?6,5\">Renesis<\/a>.  The viewer is only a static file viewer (does not support opening web documents), has limited support for animation, text or scripting but it is the first SVGT 1.2 player we get a chance to play with (new features like SVG 1.2 Event Handlers, uDOM).  Coming on news of a Preview, EvolGrafiX has hinted that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosvg.net\/?p=36\">Renesis is being taken over by as-yet-unnamed company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>ajaxSketch Released<\/h3>\n<p>Even though <a href=\"http:\/\/alex.dojotoolkit.org\/?p=551\">some web developers<\/a> had problems both with using the prefix <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adaptivepath.com\/publications\/essays\/archives\/000385.php\" title=\"Asynchronous JavaScript And XML\">AJAX<\/a> to capitalize on the buzz and the fact that it uses a Mozilla-only technology (<span class=\"definition\" title=\"XML User Interface Language\">XUL<\/span>), the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajaxsketch.com\/\" title=\"Web-based drawing application using SVG and XUL\">ajaxSketch<\/a> demo was released.  The good news is that it uses SVG+XUL to deliver a nice little web-based drawing application.  Of course the demo only works in Firefox 1.5.<\/p>\n<h3>RichDraw<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starkravingfinkle.org\/blog\/\">Mark Finkle<\/a> has been doing some fantastic work on converting <a href=\"http:\/\/starkravingfinkle.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/svg-in-ie-update\/\"><span class=\"definition\" title=\"Vector Markup Language\">VML<\/span> to SVG<\/a>.  His latest creation is a similar rich-graphics editor similar to ajaxSketch called <a href=\"http:\/\/starkravingfinkle.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/richdraw-simple-vmlsvg-editor\/\" title=\"Web-based drawing application using SVG\/VML\">RichDraw<\/a> which apparently works in IE 6, Firefox 1.5 and Opera 9.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/yahooads.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ypn-js.overture.com\/partner\/js\/ypn.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Portable Inkscape<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freesmug.org\/portableapps\/inkscape\/\">Portable Inkscape OS X<\/a> was released this month.  It basically allows you to put a working copy of the open-source SVG editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkscape.org\/\" title=\"Inkscape\">Inkscape<\/a> (with personal settings) onto a portable device (such as a USB thumb drive).  For Mac only at this time \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<h3>Cross-Browser Drawing API<\/h3>\n<p>I reported <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/31\/cross-browser-drawing-api-lands\/\" title=\"Rich Cross-Browser Drawing API\">this<\/a> here itself.  Basically Google helped sponsor putting together a cross-browser drawing API that supports <a href=\"http:\/\/whatwg.org\/specs\/web-apps\/current-work\/#scs-dynamic\">canvas<\/a> functionality.<\/p>\n<h3>Dojo Supports VML<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dojotoolkit.org\/2006\/04\/12\/dojo-and-vml\">This piece<\/a> mentions that <a href=\"http:\/\/dojotoolkit.org\/\" title=\"Open Source JavaScript toolkit\">Dojo<\/a> now supports VML.  Look for support for SVG in the future.  <em>[Edit: Dylan corrected me in the comments below.  Dojo already supports inline SVG and what this notice is about is abstracting things to a common drawing API (similar concept to the API mentioned above)]<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Use SVG to Render 3D Objects<\/h3>\n<p>The folks in the <a href=\"http:\/\/pear.php.net\/\" title=\"PHP Extension and Application Repository\">PEAR<\/a> framework folks have put together a \"driver\" that <a href=\"http:\/\/kore-nordmann.de\/home\/blog\/driver_svg_control_subdivision_surfaces\">renders 3D objects using SVG<\/a> in web browsers for <a href=\"http:\/\/pear.php.net\/package\/Image_3D\">Image_3D<\/a>.  While it's still very slow, it looks like amazing work.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/yahooads.js\"><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/ypn-js.overture.com\/partner\/js\/ypn.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the latest news in the world of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,46,11,28],"tags":[104,198],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-svg","category-technology","category-web","tag-inskcape","tag-svg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}