Thoughts on web development and technologies by Peter Gasston
CSS in emails, HTML vs XHTML, and more
I’m back from my holiday, with a quick look at some of the links I would have discussed in more detail had I been here…
SVG waiting in the wings
One technology that’s ready to take the step up onto the big stage is SVG. If you’re not sure what that is, its Wikipedia entry provides a good summary:
SVG is an XML markup language for describing two-dimensional vector graphics, both static and animated.
That’s a pretty big deal; static or animated images which are marked up with XML, […]
New features in Gecko 1.9
Gecko is the rendering engine used in browsers such as Firefox, SeaMonkey, Camino, Epiphany, Netscape, and more.
The next version (1.9, currently available as a preview release) introduces a whole load of new features and fixes to the engine. In my last post I mentioned the speed increase thanks to the move to a new graphics layer […]
No huge SVG leaps in Firefox 3
A little while ago I claimed that SVG looks set to be the future of web graphics, after Opera’s announcement that SVG would be allowed as a value in the background-image declaration.
Unfortunately Firefox won’t be doing the same with their next release; indeed, it seems that resources are limited at Mozilla;
With minimal resources available for SVG development, […]
Designing SVG with Inkscape
SVG looks set to be the future of web graphics - the distant future, perhaps, as it’s not yet supported by IE without a plugin. Opera’s Chief Web Opener, David Storey, announced on his blog recently that future builds of Opera will support SVG on the CSS background-image declaration. This is very good news, and […]
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Mark Boulton Design have been selected to redesign drupal.org, the website of the Drupal CMS. I’m a big admirer of Mark’s writing about design and typography, and I think it’s exciting that a big open-source project is going in this direction.
Now, if we could get him to design the Drupal user interface (as Veerle Pieters is doing with Expression Engine), that would really be something.
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