The beautiful city of Paris is the place to be later this year for anyone interested in (ubiquitous) SVG. Therefore please help those people in finding out about the event there, for example by placing banners on appropriate places on the web.
With the SVG source available, real easy to adapt, the first alternate version already received.
Developers worldwide today probably thought "YES, finally" when reading that IE9 will support SVG natively.
You can download a preview version for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
MIX, the high-profile conference on web technology, has a presentation about SVG i expect many people to be rather interested in (as IE is only big browser not yet having SVG built-in.): "... Join Doug Schepers (W3C) and Patrick Dengler (Microsoft) who will take you through the past, present and future of SVG on the Web. ..."
For those who couldn't make it to SVG Open this year, there's a little Follow-Up at the SVG Open website. If you have any links to blogposts or photos, please tell the organizers.
SVG Open 2009, the 7th International Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics,
titled "SVG coming of age", will be held at the Google Crittenden Campus in
Mountain View, California on October 2-4 2009, with additional workshops on
October 5. Hosted by Google, sponsored by Opera, and supported by
the Open Ajax Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
The SVG Open conference series is the premier forum for SVG designers,
developers, and implementors to share ideas, experiences, products, and strategies.
Over 60 presentations will be delivered from SVG experts all over the world,
... any KOffice application can handle any shape. For instance, KWord can embed bitmap graphics, Krita can embed vector graphics and Karbon can embed charts. This flexibility does not only give KOffice unprecedented integration, but also allows new applications to be created very easily. Such applications can e.g. target special user groups like kids or certain professions...
This is just a draft kick-off version.
In the mean time comments are very welcome, so i can improve it myself (haven't figured out markup on this blog either).
I have seen many, many different reasons for an SVG file not to result in an image.
Some happen often, some rarely. Let's try to make a rather complete list:
Inkscape is a popular free, open-source, vector-graphics authoring tool, which uses SVG as its native format, allowing people to publish their art directly on the Web. Inkscape's online help system has been expanded and published as a manual, Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program. InformIT, a large technical publisher, has listed this as their most popular product of 2008.
