{"id":260,"date":"2006-05-25T06:07:21","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T12:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/25\/microsoft-live-local-now-uses-svg\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T06:07:21","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T12:07:21","slug":"microsoft-live-local-now-uses-svg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/25\/microsoft-live-local-now-uses-svg\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Live Local Now Uses SVG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.wordpress.com\/2006\/05\/24\/maps-keep-getting-richer\/\">Scoble<\/a>,  Microsoft has updated <a href=\"http:\/\/local.live.com\/\">Live Local<\/a> (aka \"Virtual Earth\").  I took a look and was delighted to find that in the Firefox version, they are using inline <span class=\"definition\" title=\"Scalable Vector Graphics\">SVG<\/span> to draw driving directions.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/googleads.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is great news for SVG advocacy and it is actually EXACTLY <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2005\/12\/06\/the-svg-roller-coaster\/#FinalWords\">what I've been asking for<\/a>: A high-profile web application made by a big company to endorse SVG.  I just thought Google would be the first to do this (in fairness, the new Google Maps API v2 does have a secret option for  SVG support, but it is not enabled by default in Google Local).<\/p>\n<p>My only complaint (and you know there had to be at least one) is that Windows Live Local doesn't seem to use SVG in Opera 9 (well, Driving Direction paths are not visually showing up in O9 anyway).<\/p>\n<p>Update:  The new features surrounding traffic, construction and accidents do not seem to use SVG, they use rasters generated server-side.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I discovered this by using the Inspector in the latest version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joehewitt.com\/blog\/firebug_04_come.php\">Firebug extension<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/alex.dojotoolkit.org\/?p=559\">Alex Russell<\/a>).  If you are a web developer, I highly recommend that you check out this fantastic extension - it may be replacing my need for the DOM Inspector.<\/p>\n<p>To see the inline SVG with Firebug on Windows Live Local:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/local.live.com\">Live Local<\/a> in Firefox 1.5<\/li>\n<li>Click \"Driving Directions\", enter a start\/end address<\/li>\n<li>Expand the Firebug pane (click the red 'x' in the status bar)<\/li>\n<li>Click the \"Inspect\" button in the Firebug pane<\/li>\n<li>Click the driving direction line\/path in the Local Live page<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/design\/Windows_Live_Local_uses_SVG_on_Firefox\">Digg this story<\/a> if you want...<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/googleads.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoble, Microsoft has updated Live Local (aka &#8220;Virtual Earth&#8221;). I took a look and was delighted to find that in the Firefox version, they are using inline SVG to draw driving directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,36,24,43,25,46,11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-google","category-microsoft","category-ria","category-software","category-svg","category-technology","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","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=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}