{"id":341,"date":"2007-03-09T08:50:24","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T14:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2007\/03\/09\/please-help-out-mozilla-svg\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T08:50:24","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T14:50:24","slug":"please-help-out-mozilla-svg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/09\/please-help-out-mozilla-svg\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Help Out Mozilla SVG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, tor posted <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/tor\/archives\/2007\/03\/svg_priorities_in_firefox_3.html\">this announcement\/plea<\/a> to the community.  It's a grim reality that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\/\">Firefox's<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\/\" title=\"Scalable Vector Graphics\">SVG<\/a> implementation is not where it should be (some big pieces missing).  Though I'll be happy with the improvements in SVG support coming in Firefox 3 (some cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG11\/filters.html\">filter effects<\/a> like Gaussian Blur), I was really hoping to see at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG11\/animate.html\">Declarative Animation<\/a> make it into Firefox 3, even working pieces of it.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I had some free time in Dec-Jan to contribute to Mozilla SVG, where I actually contributed a couple bug fixes\/patches.  Participating in that way felt great and got my C++ juices flowing again.  But unfortunately my spare time to help has dried up a little.<\/p>\n<p>If you have some spare development cycles, if you care about open graphics technologies in the future web space, if you know your C++ and feel ambitious enough to try and get to know a <em>really large<\/em> software project - please try and help out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/svg\/\">Mozilla SVG<\/a> team.  Go find a <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=Core&component=SVG&version=1.8+Branch&version=Trunk&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=\" title=\"Mozilla SVG bug list\">little bug<\/a> and try and piece together a fix for it.<\/p>\n<p>I won't lie - for a newcomer, it a daunting task at first.  But hanging out in the Mozilla <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/svg\/faq.html#contact\" title=\"Mozilla Internet Relay Chat information\">#svg IRC channel<\/a> really helped out and those guys are pretty patient.  Just think - you <em>can<\/em> make a difference with the next version of Firefox and millions of people will be using software you helped write.<\/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>A few days ago, tor posted this announcement\/plea to the community. It&#8217;s a grim reality that Firefox&#8217;s SVG implementation is not where it should be (some big pieces missing). 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