{"id":263,"date":"2006-06-23T14:11:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T20:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/06\/23\/svg-news-digest-2006-06-23\/"},"modified":"2006-06-23T14:11:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-23T20:11:01","slug":"svg-news-digest-2006-06-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/23\/svg-news-digest-2006-06-23\/","title":{"rendered":"SVG News Digest: 2006-06-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I try to summarize the most relevant news from the world of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG11\/index.html\">Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)<\/a> every month.  Here's the digest for May-June 2006.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Opera 9 Released<\/h3>\n<p>A huge step forward for SVG in the web browser actually, Opera finally released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/\" title=\"Download the Opera 9 Web Browser Now\">Version 9<\/a> of their acclaimed web browser.  Opera 9 includes SVG 1.1 Basic support, which is pretty close to everything I could possibly want in a SVG 1.1 implementation.  Opera now has the best SVG implementation out there are the moment, and Firefox has a long ways to catch up in Firefox 3 (due some time next year).<\/p>\n<h3>Sam Ruby On SVG<\/h3>\n<p>I follow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intertwingly.net\/\" title=\"Sam Ruby's Blog\">Sam Ruby's blog<\/a> to get some insight into feed-related and other hot web technologies, so I was happy to see this morning that Sam has given his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intertwingly.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/23\/Sculpting-the-Future\">vote of confidence<\/a> for SVG as a technology.  Sam raises a good point about SVG being a \"positive epidemic\":  We've now got SVG in the desktop (Gnome\/KDE), office applications (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a>), web browsers (Opera, Firefox and soon Safari and later IE) and drawing programs (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkscape.org\/\">Inkscape<\/a>).  There are enough things out there including forms of SVG support that eventually support will even out and we'll have ubiquitous support everywhere.<\/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<h3>SVG Used in Windows Live Local<\/h3>\n<p>Evidence that SVG is maturing as a web technology, an update to <a href=\"http:\/\/local.live.com\/\">Windows Live Local<\/a> at the end of May results in Mozilla-based browsers being served SVG for driving direction paths.  As reported <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/25\/microsoft-live-local-now-uses-svg\/\">here<\/a> last month.  Note that <a href=\"http:\/\/local.google.com\/\">Google Local<\/a> does not seem to serve SVG yet, though the Google Maps API v2 supports this hidden option which is disabled by default.<\/p>\n<h3>SVG Logo Contest<\/h3>\n<p>As SVG matures as a technology, the awareness level of SVG will also rise.  I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/28\/contest-design-a-logo-for-svg\/\">here<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.svglogo.com\/\">SVG Logo<\/a> Contest.  If you have some artistic talent, go download a good drawing program that supports SVG (like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkscape.org\/\">Inkscape<\/a>) and try your hand at designing a logo for SVG as a technology.  Entries due August 15th, so get sketching...<\/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<h3>SVG Roadshow Posted<\/h3>\n<p>In my own grassroots effort to raise awareness of SVG, I posted <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/22\/svg-roadshow-spring-2006\/\">here<\/a> about starting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getsvg.com\/general\/announcements\/svg_roadshow\">SVG Roadshow<\/a>.  We've had some great participation in that thread with lots of interesting demos, games, applications now available for you to check out in compliant browsers.<\/p>\n<h3>Inkscape 0.44 Released<\/h3>\n<p>Correction:  The source for Inkscape 0.44 has been blessed as of June 22nd.  We should be seeing a new version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inkscape.org\/\">Inkscape<\/a> executables released in the next day or two (maybe even by the time you're reading this).<\/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>I try to summarize the most relevant news from the world of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) every month. 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