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Political

Riots in the valley

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Rumors have been flying that riots and violence unimaginable have been happening in the fire-stricken disaster areas around Los Angeles and San Diego. Firefighters are now refusing to enter and render assistance to victims in communities such as Rancho Bernardo and Del Mar. “We’ve heard of gangs of white people […]

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SVG

Dash it all

‘ve moved on from SVG to the Canvas element, and am still suffering whiplash at the downward steepness of the step. Leaving aside that one can defeat canvas easily just by turning off script, about the best documentation I found on the element is Mozilla’s implementation. The specification is buried within the HTML5 work, which […]

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SVG

SVG and Dashed Lines

I’ve moved on from SVG to the Canvas element, and am still suffering whiplash at the downward steepness of the step. Leaving aside that one can defeat canvas easily just by turning off script, about the best documentation I found on the element is Mozilla’s implementation. The specification is buried within the HTML5 work, which […]

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Graphics/CSS W3C

The semantic web gots badges

Congratulations to the W3C for finally reclaiming the semantic web back from the drug industry. Seriously, the new logos are a good idea, and they’re quite attractive. The only thing that gave me pause about the logos are the terms of use: When used on the Web, the logo must be an active link to http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ The logo […]

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SVG

SVG Onward

I finished the static chapter on SVG for the book and it has become the largest. I imagine the programming chapters could get larger. One doesn’t realize how rich SVG is, until one really looks at the individual components and realizes what you can do with the technology. It’s nice to see that the HTML5 […]