BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. One of the advantages of SVG over some other graphics capability is the fact that SVG is vector-based. A vector graphic means that images are created via *recorded mathematical primitives (circle, line, square, etc.) rather than based on fixed pixels. Because SVG is a vector graphic, the same image can […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A hopeful piece of news from yesterday was about the possibility that Apple will be using SVG for the iPhone rather than Flash. The advantages? SVG is lightweight, SVG is standard, SVG scales beautifully, SVG doesn’t have to be licensed, and Safari already implements much of the SVG 1.1 specification. Not to […]
Update Oops! Available now. For those continuing to click the download button, IE8 will be available at 2pm PST, which is 4pm CST, by my SVG clock. More later, but we can confirm that IE8 does not support the XHTML MIME type. My opinion, based on what I’m reading and seeing, Microsoft will never directly support […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Continuing from previous post Following are the web log entries that contain the new MSIE 8.0 user agent string, with the specific MS IP address blocked out: —-.microsoft.com – – [04/Mar/2008:01:55:29 +0000] “GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1” 200 1406 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I like Andrew Orlowski, though he offered me a writing job once and then yanked it. I don’t always agree with him, and I don’t always agree with how he phrases some of his material, but he typically has a good point. Take the recent Nine Inch Nails album release. Several […]