Skip to main content

Gary Edwards's Library tagged svg →  View Popular

02 Oct 09

Google urges Web adoption of vector graphics | Deep Tech - CNET News

Interesting discussion about SVG, and the push Google is making with their SVG Conference.

excerpt:  Vector graphics describe imagery mathematically with lines, curves, shapes, and color values rather than the grid of colored pixels used by bitmapped file formats such as JPEG or GIF widely used on the Web today. Where appropriate, such as with corporate logos but not photographs, vector graphics bring smaller file sizes and better resizing flexibility. That's good for faster downloads and use on varying screen sizes.

news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-10365636-264.html - Preview

SVG Google Flash Air Silverlight

21 Feb 09

Mozilla's Bespin project encourages experimentation - Ars Technica, Paul Ryan

"The Bespin project, which aims to develop a browser-based IDE, has attracted significant attention in the Web development community. Ars looks at some of the buzz around Bespin and the project's innovative use of the HTML canvas element.........."

Good stuff here. The Bespin project started off as a JavaScript code editor written in JavaScript, but the really exciting part looks to be the innovative use of the canvas element and the JavaScript API for drawing. There is also the development of using Bespin as a Web page editor using the new canvas text rendering API! One of the advantages Flash has over WebKit is the proliferation of SWF based IDE's. Silverlight will similarly have an excellent collection of IDE's. There are no WebKit - Canvas based IDE's today, but Bespin will perhaps change that. I can also imagine that many of the Flash based IDE's like Swifft tools and my favorite, "SwishMAX", could provide multiple vector graphics; including Canvas!

Note that Adobe is scheduled to discontinue all support for SVG this coming March of 2009, moving everything to the proprietary SWF.

arstechnica.com/...encourages-experimentation.ars - Preview

webkit canvas svg javaScript bespin

23 Dec 08

SVG Is The Future Of Application Development | SitePoint »

I could see this coming a mile away, ana it's about time! ".... So if HTML can’t deliver for us here, what will? Microsoft wants us to use Silverlight and Adobe wants us to use Flash and AIR, of course. And Apple…? Apple ostensibly wants us to use HTML5’s canvas. Both Microsoft’s and Adobe’s contenders are proprietary, which seems to be reason enough for web developers to avoid them to a certain degree, and all of them muddy HTML, which is a dangerous thing for the semantic web.

But Apple actually has a trick up its sleeve. Like Mozilla’s been doing with Firefox, Apple has quietly been implementing better support for SVG, the W3C’s Recommendation for XML-based vector graphics, into WebKit. SVG delivers the same kind of vector graphics capabilities that Flash does, but it does so using all the interoperability benefits that XML brings along for the ride.

SVG is great for graphically displaying both text and images, manipulating them with declarative visual primitives, and it comes with a host of lickable effects. Ironically, SVG was originally jointly developed by both Adobe and Sun Microsystems but recently it’s Sun Labs that has been doing interesting stuff with the technology. The most compelling experiment of this kind has to be Sun Labs’s Lively Kernel project....."

www.sitepoint.com/...ure-of-application-development - Preview

svg xaml xul html-css

31 Aug 08

Mozilla Standards Blog » Blog Archive » Fear and Loathing on the Standards Trail (with an Upbeat Coda)

everything we do here at Mozilla is, for the most part, a contribution to the Web platform. I blogged previously about the low esteem I reserve for arguments that favor proprietary platforms (which typically pit rapid proprietary innovation against dawdling Web Platform standardization cycles), but even in that upbeat blog post, I acknowledge that the standards process leaves much room for improvement.

blog.mozilla.com/...ards-trail-with-an-upbeat-coda - Preview

standards mozilla html5 CSS SVG

26 Aug 08

SVG Effects For CSS

This document defines how SVG effects are extended to apply to CSS-formatted elements. In particular, it makes the 'filter', 'mask' and 'clip-path' CSS properties and SVG paint servers applicable to CSS-formatted elements (such as HTML elements).

people.mozilla.com/...SVG-CSS-Effects-Draft.html - Preview

css svg html ajax javascript

08 Aug 08

Raphaël—JavaScript Library for SVG - VML graphics

Raphaël uses SVG and VML as a base for graphics creation. Because of that every created object is a DOM object so you can attach JavScript event handlers or modify objects later. Raphaël’s goal is to provide an adapter that will make drawing cross-browser and easy. Currently library supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+.

dmitry.baranovskiy.com/raphael - Preview

javascript svg vml webkit raphael

18 Jun 08

Flash Wars: Adobe Fights for AIR with the Open Screen Project [Part 3 of 3] | AppleInsider

Part two of the Prince McClean Adobe-Flash history. Excellent history involves Adobe SVG, Microsoft VmL-XAML-Silverlight, Apple WebKit, Sun (Java) as they battle for dominance over web applications and the future of the Web itself.

www.appleinsider.com/...creen_project_part_3_of_3.html - Preview

svg ria flash adobe java javascript webkit air

  • Two areas where Flash can offer real value is in displaying and packaging video on the web, and in serving as a Java replacement for developing applets. Here's a look at how Adobe is working to defend its strengths in the face of competition, and how its efforts to open the Flash specification in the Open Screen Project play into these efforts.
  • proprietary FLV video container format
  • 4 more annotations...

Flash Wars: Adobe in the History and Future of Flash [Part 1 of 3] | AppleInsider Prince McLean

First part of three part series. Covers RiA history of Flash and SVG

www.appleinsider.com/...ture_of_flash_part_1_of_3.html - Preview

flash SVG VML RIA Silverlight

  • Pitted against Microsoft's efforts to crush Flash using its own copycat Silverlight platform, open source projects seeking to duplicate Flash for free, and Apple's efforts to create a mobile platform wholly free of any trace of Flash, Adobe has scrambled to announce efforts to make Flash a public specification in the Open Screen Project.
  • Adobe purchased Macromedia in 2005 largely to obtain Flash, the crown jewel of Macromedia's web development tool assets. Prior to owning it, Adobe unsuccessfully worked hard to kill it as a competing product.



    In 1998, when Macromedia and Microsoft submitted VML to the W3C as a potential web standard for vector graphics (based on Microsoft's RTF), Adobe teamed up with Sun to push the rival PGML specification (based on Adobe's PostScript). The W3C developed a new standard that drew from both, called SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics).



    Adobe pushed SVG as a competitor to Flash right up until it bought Flash, distributing the Adobe SVG Player as a free web plugin. Microsoft continued to push its own VML, which it built into Internet Explorer. This prevented either VML or SVG from making much progress, as other browsers didn't support VML, while the SVG open standard saw little adoption given Adobe's weak presence in web development tools. That let Flash easily win out over both as the way to develop and present animated vector graphics on the web.
07 May 08

Analysis: Sun's Lively Kernel Threatens HTML, CSS Dominance - Software - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness

uh oh. JavaScript - SVG rendering engine relacing HTML - CSS with SVG drawn from a transform library.

www.crn.com/207501301 - Preview

SVG RIA

  • A little-known project called Lively Kernel at Sun's research labs simplifies the way Web programming is created. Lively is a JavaScript engine that uses scalable vector graphics (SVG) to render images, animation and text on a Web browser. What's most exciting about the Lively stack is that eliminates the need for HTML, document object model (DOM) and style sheet (CSS) programming.
20 Jan 08

CDI WICD 2.0

  • This document defines a generic language-independent processing model
    for combining arbitrary document formats.



    The Compound Document Framework is language-independent.
    While it is clearly meant to serve as the basis for integrating W3C's
    family of XML formats within its Interaction Domain (e.g., MathML, SMIL,
    SVG, VoiceXML, XForms, XHTML, XSL) with each other, together with CSS and
    the DOM; it can also be used to integrate non-W3C formats with W3C formats
    or integrate non-W3C formats with other non-W3C formats.



    1.1. Conformance



    Everying in this specification is normative except for diagrams,
    examples, notes and sections marked non-normative.



    The key words must, must not,
    required, shall, shall not, should, should not, recommended, may and optional in this document are
    to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].



    This specification defines the following classes of products:




    conforming implementation


    A user agent that implements all interfaces described in this
    specification and follows all must-, required- and shall-level of critera
    in this specification.


    conforming document


    A document that follows all must-, required- and shall-level of critera
    in this specification that apply to document authors.


    conforming authoring tool


    One that produces conforming documents.
17 Dec 07

Flow Document Overview

  • Uh OH! Look what Microsoft has put into the new .NET 3.0 SDK! Flow Documents is a Microsoft specific version of HTML that is part of the Windows Presentation Foundation Browser Developers Framework. XAML - XPS-XABL.



    It also looks as though Microsoft has reserved MS-OOXML MSOffice level integration for themselves.



    Another thought is that MSOffice is being positioned as a developers framework for Web 2.0 development. This docuemnt is goign to take some serious study. Bad news for IBM and Adobe for sure. PDF, Flash and AJAX are all going to be in the fight of their lives.



    The conversion tools are going to become of critical importance. Some initial thoughts are that we could convert MSOffice documents to CDF+; convert OpenOffice documents to CDF+; and convert Flow Documents to CDF+, using the same XHTML 2.0 - CSS desktop profile (WICD Full). Converting MS-OOXML to Flow Documents however appears to be next to impossible by design. The easy approach would be to let the da Vinci plug-in perfect an internal conversion to either CDF+ or Flow.



    It will be interesting to see if Microsoft provides a Flow plug-in for MSOffice. I doubt it, but perhaps there will be a demand from Flow developers. da Vinci could of course be configured to produce Flow Documents. At first glance, my assumption would be that the ability to convert native MSOffice documents and allication genrated Flow Documents to CDF+ would be the most important course to take. We''ll see. This is no doubt explosive stuff. Microsoft is truly challenging the W3C for the Web.

     - garyedwards on 2007-12-17
1 - 12 of 12
Showing 20▼ items per page

Selected Tags

Related Tags

Sponsored Links

Ads by Google

Diigo is about better ways to research, share and collaborate on information. Learn more »

Join Diigo