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SVG

Apple embracing SVG?

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 […]

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SVG XHTML/HTML

If you’re pushing the grapefruit, make sure the apples don’t stink

Though RealTech is a weblog, it’s also the place where I do much of my experimentation with technology. It’s the site I use to test out the plug-ins, graphics applications, and what not I’m eventually planning on using in the rest of my web sites. Normally you don’t use a ‘live’ site to test changes, […]

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There’s open and then there’s open

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. As an example of Microsoft’s new commitment to being more open with web developers, the company is releasing the IE8 beta to invited testers only, with a more general release later. Perhaps by “open”, we don’t all mean the same thing? I also noticed that the company has not provided any answers […]

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RDF Specs SVG XHTML/HTML

Our bouncing baby markup has growed up

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. On today’s tenth anniversary of the birth of XML, Norm Walsh writes: I joined O’Reilly on the very first day of an unprecedented two-week period during which the production department, the folks who actually turn finished manuscripts into books, was closed. The department was undergoing a two-week training period during which they would […]

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SVG

Graphics tools

I really kick myself now for not including a mention of gnuplot in “Painting the Web”. I had one chapter on graphics and data, and it would have been a nice fit. However, it does need a nice installation environment for the Mac, and that was one of the criteria for including mention of tools. We’re told […]