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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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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 […]

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Programming Languages SVG

Color sampling and SVG gradients

More fun with SVG. I’m rather surprised there isn’t more general ‘design’ work using SVG. True, you really should have your pages as XHTML and not many people are ready to jump on that bandwagon. Still, once you’ve bit the bullet, you can have a lot of fun with your pages and incorporating SVG. My […]

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SVG Writing

Blog pulse

Summary:   beep…beep…svg…beep…beep… I need to refocus on the book, but you’ll be seeing the tangible aspects of writing a book on web graphics throughout my web sites in the weeks to come. For instance, if you’re using an SVG capable browser, you might notice the ‘squiggle’ line across my header. That’s my ‘blog pulse’. It […]