As a few readers of this site may know, all too many years ago I wrote a book on Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG, back around 2004. The book focused primarily on the Adobe SVG Viewer, at the time the only major implementation of SVG on ...
Brad Neuberg of the Google Developer programs stopped by Yahoo! last week talk about HTML5. Brad has been hard at work on SVG Web lately, but he covered a lot of ground in this talk, including SVG/Canvas rendering, CSS transforms, app-cache, local databases, web workers, and much more. Brad does a fantastic job identifying the scope and practical implications of the changes that are coming along with HTML5 support in modern browsers. And he pulls no punches about which browsers fall into th
Over on my blog I report a new release of SVG Web from the SVG Web team: Yowsers! It’s another release of SVG Web , this time code named Beholder: According to the classic D&D Monster Manual, the Beholder is an “aggressive and avaricious spherical monster that is most frequently found underground.” In other words, you don’t want to bump into this guy in a back alley. This release, roughly about 1 month of work, has contributions from many users and developers. We’ve knocked out
One thing that seems to come up from time to time when talking about SVG is the apparent lack of a mechanism to make certain size specific adjustments. Typical use case is icon design, where you want to make sure the outline of the icon ...
My love for SVG withered due to lack of support for it. As I remember it the only browser you could use it with was IE and even then you had to manually download and install a plugin. It just wasn't really a viable technology at that ...