LinguaGrafica

Three and a half ways to use SVG in a blogger post

2005-08-14T16:20:00.000-07:00

There are three ways to include SVG in your blog.1. You can link to an SVG object by using the Blogger HTML editor to point to SVG hosted somewhere else. For example:You end up with:Note, that blogger doesn't like the embed tag which is what Adobe generally

Article: When Do Web Services Make Sense?

2003-11-25T11:32:00.000-08:00

Source: http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_06/magazine/columns/trends/default_pf.aspx Douglas Kerwin provides an excellent article about when using web services is appropriate. Usually I try to keep this blog focused on SVG, but I think web services are such a strong application for SVG that this is worth mentioning. The article is short, so I won't summarize.

Article: A tale of two Cairos

2003-11-24T17:14:00.000-08:00

In a A tale of two Cairos, Jon Udell talks about standards (or the lack thereof) in Microsoft's Longorn release. "And as the 2003 PDC made clear by conspicuous omission, CSS -- along with some other Web standards including XHTML and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) -- won't be embraced or extended in Longhorn's presentation system, Avalon. To call attention to this fact is to risk being branded a

CGM versus SVG for technical graphics

2003-09-29T16:47:00.000-07:00

Source: www.cgmopen.org/technical/cgm-svg-20030508-2.htm Lofton Henderson & Dieter Weidenbrueck Introduction I came across the above article the other day and was interested as I don't hear about CGM (or WebCGM) very often. I was hoping for an unbiased comparison of the two formats. Actually, I'll confess my bias was that these must be complimentary technologies since WebCGM also comes from the

The fall of writing...what makes communication technologies fail

2003-09-04T03:30:00.000-07:00

source: The fall of writing, Washington Post (via the San Jose Mercury News) The other morning I read the article above as I drank my morning coffee. "In the first study of its kind, three experts in the study of written language have described the common characteristics that caused three famous scripts -- ancient Egyptian, Middle Eastern cuneiform and pre-Columbian Mayan -- to disappear. "The

Speaking of SVG--literally

2003-08-21T18:11:00.000-07:00

source: SD Times "SALT Forum consortium has enabled speech navigation of Scalable Vector Graphics by extending the W3C standard with a new tagging specification..." SVG is well appointed for applications like GIS, Location Based Services (LBS). SVG was also designed for Accessibility. At first glance this two observations may not seem terribly related. Of course any LBS benefits greatly from

SVG and real world GIS

2003-08-21T13:57:00.000-07:00

source: Interactive SVG mapping with MapInfo location-based intelligence Believe it or not, I'm still catching up on some of the SVG Open talks that I didn't have a chance to attend. My latest "discovery" is the talk given by Dany Bouchard of DBx Geomatics. Dany gives great real world examples of SVG in the GIS world that should make even perenial skeptics (I won't name names) stop and think.

News: Microsoft looses law suit

2003-08-14T17:24:00.000-07:00

sources: http://archive.infoworld.com/ Washington Post news.com.com Not specifically related to SVG, but this could have an impact on the delivery of web content, and future browsers or thin-client platforms. "Eolas Technologies, which develops Internet technologies that it licenses to third parties, is alleging that Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's Windows 98, Windows 95, and Internet

New Demos: Network topology and more maps

2003-08-13T16:40:00.000-07:00

I found a site with some really nice demos that highlight pratical uses for SVG animation. www.thesethings.clara.net/ani/. I liked network diagram in particular because it shows off how SVG can be used for eLearning and for network topology. Another site that I've been spending some time at is SmartMaps Applications . GIS and LBS (Location Based Services) have always been an exciting area

Really cool examples

2003-08-10T13:44:00.000-07:00

source: Dean's SVG Open talk Okay, I missed Dean's talk at SVG Open and now I'm really sorry I did. This is a must see. Particularly: Small animation Dock Clock

2003-08-01T10:14:00.000-07:00

Article: JPublish project separates the application code from content and data source: JavaPro An interesting article about "JPublish" The project web page provides this summary: "JPublish is a powerful web publishing system designed to ensure a clean separation of developer roles. JPublish includes support for multiple templating engines, including Jakarta Apache's Velocity, FreeMarker and

2003-07-31T17:39:00.000-07:00

Now here's something interesting... I came across an interesting product today—Lazlo Systems. I haven't had much time to really look at it carefully yet, but I found some interesting references to SVG on the Lazlo developer board. It seems it is a mix of XML, JavaScript, CSS, and Flash for developing rich media that is delivered in the Flash MX player. see "I keep asking for more :) dSVG...""

2003-07-26T13:22:00.000-07:00

Article about Corel's "Smart Graphics" Source: http://www.globetechnology.com/ A good article about Corel's SmartGraphics products. However, I was a little disappointed by the article's conclusion. It suggests that the only SVG Viewer is Corel's SVG Viewer which is, of course one of many including Adobe's , Batik's Squggle and mobile viewers like Bitflash. By omitting these other viewers, it

2003-07-21T23:35:00.000-07:00

Keynote--The next Generation Web Client Chris Lilley Chris continued discussing a theme that had come up during the week. Netscape has ended it's involvement with Mozilla with the exception of $2 million in guilt money (my comment, not Chris's) Microsoft's announcement that Mac IE is no more and that IE for Windows is 100% part of the OS means we are in a different world. Moreover, Since there

2003-07-21T23:07:00.000-07:00

Keynote--The Art of SVG-- Phillip Mansfield Phillip gave some excellent examples of how powerful CSS (style sheets) can be in SVG. One SVG can have several style sheets for different purposes. For example, FAX, Web, mobile devices. Style sheets can control layout of items as well as behaviors (e.g. mouse overs) and patterns. He even showed an example of a pattern that was created with a nested

2003-07-21T19:36:00.000-07:00

A Configurable SVG Magnifying Glass--Dr. Phillip Mansfield This was a wonderful talk about how to build a magnification interface with nothing but SVG (and a little JavaScript). I lost some of my notes when my laptop battery died for the last time...so here's what I remember. The problem with many magnification solutions like ASV or some of the examples that have been posted which use a

2003-07-21T19:14:00.000-07:00

The rest of Thursday... I spent the afternoon catching up on impromptu meetings. Not much I can share yet but I hope that some of them will turn into great news I can share soon.

2003-07-21T19:11:00.000-07:00

“SVG in 3GPP” (sorry, I didn't get the presenter's name) This talk is about SVGTiny and SVGBasic which are intended for use in mobile devices like small phones and appliances and PDAs respectively. Example applications: Custom Postcards (including a picture taken on the phone) Cartoons Applications (including games) Tips for developing SVGT/SVGB content: Pogressive downloading allows you

2003-07-21T19:07:00.000-07:00

“XHTML and SVG: Publishing with concept” Benjamin Jung Benjamin comes from an “XML” “text” world. Now wants to solve more graphical publishing problems. Intro: Separation of: Content Transformation Semantic, Links Logic, scripting Presentation Why Maintenance Extensibility Reusability

2003-07-21T19:02:00.000-07:00

“SVG, PDF and ImageViewer” Jon Ferraiolo Jon began by going over the SVG world according to Jon and Adobe. This is useful context. As Paul (and Winston Churchill) said in his keynote, "The farther back we look, the farther forward we can see." well, that's a bit of paraphrasing I guess. Pre 1982: Xerox [JAM] 1982: Adobe founded as a postscript company 1986: Illustrator – “postscript editor”

2003-07-17T14:21:00.000-07:00

Schemasoft did the Visio SVG import/export for Microsoft Sorry for the poor formatting. This will be fixed soon. Visio began 11 years ago Mission "Drawing and diagramming for the rest of us" Original target for graphics was print Support for "Web graphics" grew over time Grown over releases GIF, JPG, PNG, Save As Web" HTML/VML So Why SVG? Partly as a way to

2003-07-17T13:59:00.000-07:00

Schemasoft did the Visio SVG import/export for Microsoft Visio began 11 years ago Mission "Drawing and diagramming for the rest of us" Original target for graphics was print Support for "Web graphics" grew over time Grown over releases GIF, JPG, PNG, Save As Web" HTML/VML So Why SVG? Partly as a way to depreciate some of the 27 different formats that Visio

2003-07-17T03:35:00.000-07:00

Creating SVG Brand Recognition Next was the panel I was invited to participate on. It was hosted by Chris Komnick (SchemaSoft) myself, Tim Bray, Rob Williamson (Corel), Richard See (Microsoft), Jonas Lindgren, and Alexander Adam. The conversation was good. In brief, we discussed the challenges SVG has faced in the past and some that it still has to over come. We also discussed briefly what we

2003-07-17T03:33:00.000-07:00

SVG Working group Q&A I wish I had seen this whole session. It is rare for all the Working group to be together in a public forum. Given the new things in SVG 1.2, this was a particularly auspicious time. Topics of interest were the Corel proposal for Script (standard GUI controls) www.corel.com/smartgraphics/resources/dSVG11 some issues regarding markers, and some requests for clarifications

2003-07-17T03:31:00.000-07:00

"SVG in Manufacturing: Current Possibilities and Future Perspectives" Rob Williamson--Corel About a dozen people attended Corel's talk on SVG in manufacturing applications. In my opinion, this wasn't due to a lack of interest in the topic. On the contrary, I think this was a good example of the diversity of topics at this year's conference. Literally SVG is being used for everything from

2003-07-17T00:53:00.000-07:00

"Wednesday morning at SVG Open" or SVG as we know it is dead. Slept in a bit late because of the fun last night. (SVG folk know how to have fun and engage in great conversations about a wide range of topics. Also, this is one of the friendliest "conference" crowds I've experienced. Unfortunately, there were more cancellations of talks this morning. Many people were upset by this and felt let

2003-07-16T11:12:00.000-07:00

Miscellaneous Tuesday ramblings My apologies for not being able to post sooner. In fact, I haven't the time to post extensively right now either. :) There is just too much great stuff here at SVG Open. I will do a quick rehash of yesterday. Yesterday's keynotes were really interesting. Tim and Paul both gave wonderful but someone different views on SVG and its future. I will comment more on

2003-07-14T17:34:00.000-07:00

"Building Smart Graphics Solutions with Corel Smart Graphics Studio" Presented by Tom Hoferek, User Interface Designer Back from lunch and I’m refreshed and ready to hear what Corel has to say about their spiffy SVG authoring tool! Tom began by clarifying that he isn't a developer so he might not be able to cover some really detailed questions. What is Smart Graphics Studio? Allows a designer

2003-07-14T12:05:00.001-07:00

Jim Ley's talk "Getting the server involved in SVG" As can be expected, Jim did a wonderfully through talk on using servers to create SVG. As also can be expected, Jim was not shy about sharing his biases on certain topics. Jim's session was well attended--something over twenty some odd people crowded into the small room. GetURL and PostURL have some serious limitations. For example, they

2003-07-14T12:05:00.000-07:00

SVG DOM for Mobile SVG has several profiles besides "full" SVG T (tiny) SVG B (basic) Both are proper subsets of SVG Full. SVGT lacks elements that require more footprint or processing power than typically found on minimal devices (simply cell phones) SVGB intended for PDA class machines and "Nokia Communicator" level phones. SVGB has two additional profiles: Basic DOM Extended DOM

2003-07-13T13:54:00.000-07:00

Missed the morning sessions unfortunately (I was too tired to get moving that early) but this afternoon looks very promising. I plan to go to the second half of the XSLT Quickstart--although the Cross platform applicaiton development using the Mobile DOM looks very tempting. Hmm... choices, choices. So, here is my BLOG from SVG Open. Note, they are not meant to be complete. Partially because I