{"id":470,"date":"2008-07-07T13:49:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T18:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/07\/the-svg-push\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T13:49:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T18:49:54","slug":"the-svg-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/07\/the-svg-push\/","title":{"rendered":"The SVG Push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/svg.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>Some of you may know that I recently became the co-chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\/IG\/\" title=\"W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Interest Group\">W3C SVG Interest Group<\/a>.  Or as I like to call it, The <abbr title=\"Scalable Vector Graphics\">SVG<\/abbr> Fan Club.  Being the President of a Fan Club is kind of pathetic, but I guess <a href=\"http:\/\/schepers.cc\/\" title=\"Doug Schepers\">Doug<\/a> figured I might be able to better channel any excess energy into doing something that can affect more than my personal web traffic numbers. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What I've been trying to do since I began experimenting with SVG several years ago is build up demos of the technology that are, as much as possible, workable in a cross-browser fashion.  I usually build my demos to push the edges of browser support just a little.  In other words, give a glimpse of some of potential behind the SVG format while highlighting things for the browser folk to work on.<\/p>\n<p>A case in point:  My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codedread.com\/displayWebStats.svg\" title=\"SVG Web Stats\">SVG Web Stats<\/a> web page - or should I say application?  Originally the idea was just to have a graph generated automatically from some server log files.  Then I decided to push in a little interactivity.  With the most recent wave of browsers (Opera 9.5, Firefox 3, Safari 3.1) the performance and behavior were now quite acceptable and consistent across the three main modern web browsers.  So what's the next logical thing to do?  Make it slower and buggier again of course (in this case, by adding some SMIL and more functionality that highlight browser inconsistencies)  \ud83d\ude09  Viva La Push.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we want to use the <abbr title=\"Interest Group\">IG<\/abbr> as a platform to work on a select number of initiatives that can produce some more tangible results.  Among the initial activites are assessing the state of Accessibility, gathering requirements from Designers, authoring some SVG tests and putting together a better SVG community website.  At the moment, I have this na\u00efve hope that we can actually produce something useful, so feel free to crush my spirit below.  Or, if you're so inclined and you've got some energy to spare, please feel free to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2004\/01\/pp-impl\/19480\/instructions\">Join The SVG Interest Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may know that I recently became the co-chair of the W3C SVG Interest Group. Or as I like to call it, The SVG Fan Club. Being the President of a Fan Club is kind of pathetic, but I guess Doug figured I might be able to better channel any excess energy into [&#8230;]<\/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":[198,154],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-svg","category-technology","category-web","tag-svg","tag-w3c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}