Diaries

I decided to separate out my SVG content from my personal site, and from now on, I'll be posting all my SVG to http://svg-whiz.com.

This will give me the opportunity and reason to finally annotate all my sample code, and will be teh definitive location for my Behavior and Appearance Markup proposal. Its original purpose was to host my SVG+Script online SVG editor, and I will still use it for that, once I get the new version of the editor whipped into shape.

The site is still in its infancy, and many sections are incomplete, but keep checking back for updates.

On November 9th, I'll be giving an introduction to SVG at a XML User's Group meeting in the Research Triangle Park (in the Triangle area of North Carolina: Raleigh/Cary, Durham, and Chapel Hill/Carrboro). This will basically be a concise revamp of a lecture I gave at SVG-Open 2004. The event starts at 6. It's free, and you'll get a small sandwich and a bag of chips for your trouble.

You can find more details at http://www.trixml.org/futuremeetings.shtml, including directions on how to get there.

This is a beginner course, so SVG gurus need not apply. Unless they want a snack.

On irc.freenode.net#svg , stelt showed us a new version of the Firefox browser logo done in SVG. As it was done in Adobe Illustrator, however, it was grossly bloated with ugly round-trip code and proprietary extensions.

I took it upon myself to clean it up (I also like untying knots in kite strings). The tidied-up version can be seen here:

• unzipped version (45KB)
• gzipped version (12KB)

For those interested in picayune details, stripping out proprietary extensions, base-64-encoded embedded images, and removing extraneous spaces and line-breaks took it from 8744 lines to 429 lines, going from 667KB to 45KB.

Damn you, Adobe Illustrator!!! ;)