{"id":544,"date":"2009-09-20T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T19:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2009\/09\/20\/now-we-have-a-party\/"},"modified":"2009-09-20T14:59:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T19:59:22","slug":"now-we-have-a-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/20\/now-we-have-a-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Now We Have A Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object style=\"float:right\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/svg.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>With the announcement of Microsoft sponsoring the <a href=\"http:\/\/svgopen.org\/\">SVG Open 2009<\/a> conference - we now have almost every browser manufacturer participating in some way with the conference.  That's a pretty awesome achievement!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right;clear:both\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/google.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>I think you should do your best to make it to this conference.  It's Oct 2-4 in Mountain View, California (at the Google Crittenden Campus).  So just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svgopen.org\/2009\/registration.shtml\">register<\/a> already.  You don't have much time.<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right;clear:both\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/opera.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>We've got keynotes by <a href=\"http:\/\/codinginparadise.org\/\">Brad Neuberg<\/a> of Google talking about the <a href=\"http:\/\/svgweb.googlecode.com\/\">SVG Web project<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/MacDev_ed\/blog\/\">Erik Dahsltr\u00f6m<\/a> of Opera and <a href=\"http:\/\/intertwingly.net\/blog\/\">Sam Ruby<\/a>.  We've got talks on <a href=\"http:\/\/raphaeljs.com\/\">Rapha\u00ebl<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amplesdk.com\/\">AmpleSDK<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dojotoolkit.org\/book\/dojo-book-0-9\/part-3-programmatic-dijit-and-dojo\/drawing-gfx\">dojo.gfx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right;clear:both\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/mozilla.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>There will be panel discussions with Implementors (Mozilla, WebKit, Opera, and many others) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\/\">SVG Working Group<\/a>.  There are separate sessions on SVG in Opera, in Mozilla, in Android.<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right;clear:both\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/inkscape.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>There are talks about SVG usage in important web projects like <a href=\"http:\/\/wikipedia.org\/\">Wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> as well as talks from tool makers such as <a href=\"http:\/\/inkscape.org\/\">Inkscape<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right;clear:both\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/smile.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>If you have an extra day, consider attending the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.svgopen.org\/2009\/registration.php?section=workshops\">Workshops<\/a> on the Monday to get some hands-on experience with toolkits (the afore-mentioned Rapha\u00ebl and Dojo.gfx), tools (Inkscape) and animation (SMIL) among others.<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right;clear:both\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/microsoft.svgz\"><span\/><\/object>And oh yeah, in case you missed it up top, I'll say it again:  Microsoft is sponsoring and will be attending!  Microsoft has long been the sole hold-out among desktop browsers in supporting SVG.  So while Opera, Mozilla and others have long been supporters of SVG - it's Microsoft's sponsorship and attendance that might be seen as an eyebrow-raising event.  Let's keep the speculation to a minimum, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the announcement of Microsoft sponsoring the SVG Open 2009 conference &#8211; we now have almost every browser manufacturer participating in some way with the conference. 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