Speaking of SVG, Lachlan Hardy pointed out the Raphaël JavaScript library to me, and I wanted to pass it along. This library provides cross-browser dynamic vector graphics that generates VML for IE, and SVG for the rest of the world. Among the graphical elements you can create are paths, eclipses, rectangles, circles, and text, and be able to apply […]
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All about Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG)
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I am dirt poor
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. For those iPhone users, bereft at loosing the I am Rich Ruby, no worries: I give you the I Am Dirt Poor Ruby, in SVG. Now, after Safari/Webkit properly builds in support for the Gaussian blur filter in SVG, you can impress your friends and still pay rent! (derived from ruby)
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SVG Gradient
Chapter 7 in the book (Painting the Web) provides an introduction into some of the many useful elements in SVG. Included is a discussion of the two gradients, linearGradient and radialGradient. They can’t be used to create a visual element by themselves, but are, instead, used to fill any shape that takes the fill attribute. For […]
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Zooming with SVG
I wanted to highlight a comment Bruce Rindahl made to an earlier post (with his permission): http://www.lrcwe-data.com/DeepZoom.svg is a modification of a project I have been working on. I hacked together some code to mimic the animation effect of the Hard Rock site. First some credits. The original work was funded by the State of Colorado and Division of […]
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SVG doesn’t need to compete and neither do I
The worst mistake I made in the recent discussions about open compared to proprietary technologies was to allow myself to be pulled in by sweeping statements such as, “the W3C has failed”. Not only be pulled in, but to get into some form of competition over which is the best: SVG/Ajax, Silverlight, or Flash. The […]