Web3D Consortium - Royalty Free, Open Standards for Real-Time 3D ...

by Rob

This book is devoted to both SVG and X3D as a new and universal means of visualizing information. It presents the state-of-the-art research emerging in this novel area and introduces SVG and X3D fundamentals and leading authoring tools. ...

Inkscape on the path to CMYK support

by Rob

Felipe Sanches was working on a Google Summer of Code Inkscape project to add SVG font support (and turn Inkscape into a font editor of sorts).

The 100 million club: the bigger picture of mobile software

by Rob

[Research Director Andreas Constantinou, discusses the latest update to VisionMobile's 100 million club, and the bigger picture that emerges from our research, including de facto standards and software that's truly mass-market] We ‘ve just released the updated version of our 100 million club: the watchlist of software companies whose products have been embedded on more than 100 million mobile handsets. In this H1 2008 update we ‘ve identified 25 software products from 23 companies which have

Call for Review: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification Proposed Recommendation

by Rob

2008-11-19: The SVG Working Group has published the Proposed Recommendation of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny 1.2 Specification.This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Tiny, Version 1.2, a language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML. The specification enables the creation of graphical content, from static images to animations to interactive Web applications.

How Flash Can Integrate With The Open Web

by Rob

[Big giant usual disclaimer: These are my own thoughts and opinions and not those of my employer] Dion just put up a great post on how Adobe can join the Open Web by open sourcing Flash. I agree with him, and just wanted to add to the conversation a bit. I've actually been turning this idea around in my head as well. It might surprise you since I'm an Open Web Advocate, but I like Flash. I've always tried to be non-ideological in my work. Flash has done good things and created a great deal of

State of the Open Web Talk

by Rob

I recently gave a State of the Open Web talk as part of the Google Developer Days overseas, in Italy, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Israel (I'm getting over a 10-hour jet lag right now - whew). The talk description: "Come learn about the state of the Open Web, what it is, and why it is so important. In this presentation you will learn about the latest Open Web technologies, including the Canvas tag, Web Fonts, SVG, HTML 5, and see demos, code snippets, and the state of their implementations

Ajaxian: New SVG Editor… written in Flash

by Rob

There is something ironic about an SVG editor written in Flash, but this preview by Tiago Cardoso, written using the inEvo SVG engine is fun to check...

Funny & Free RSS Icons Waiting For You

by Rob

Christmas season is out and everyone going out for shopping to decorate houses,shops and themselves. So, who will decorate blogs Obviously we right? That’s fine, you don’t need to go out for shopping to decorate your blogs. Here are some of the cool & hot RSS icons waiting for you! After logo, RSS will be the first Visible & Valuable part on the blogs.So first we need to change it to suite the Christmas and party season.For that here are some Christmas, Beer, Cocktail, Coffee and lot

S60 Theme Maker Showcase: NaHiD

by Rob

NaHiD uses SVG themes that fit landscape and portrait screens with a set of nice icons, but also provides his themes with the default S60...

Typeface.js - embedded HTML fonts sans Flash

by Rob

It's always struck me that font embedding is a huge omission from the web standards toolkit. If you're not satisfied with Georgia and Verdana, you usually need to turn to images or Flash to get the typeface you want. Tools like sIFR have made this a lot more functional, allowing you to write standard HTML and have Flash dynamically replace content in the page, but using Flash just to display HTML text seems a little unsavory. Typeface.js changes all this, providing a standards-compliant way t

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