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Interesting update on the proposed Adobe acquisition of Macromedia here.

Today I learned a bit about Microsoft’s early attempt at a markup language for vector graphics: VML. I was surprised to find out that IE 5 and 6 both support it, yet (as far as I know) no one uses it on the web. At the very least it is a great solution to the rounded corners problem that’s been mentioned on the IEBlog and here. Incidentally, the IEBlog post above has a VML example that turned me onto it in the first place. Click To Read More...

Well, I’ve decided it’s high time to ramp down my coffee/caffeine habit until I’ve quit completely. It’s something I decided to start doing in waves over the last couple years because my coffee habit usually gets out of control, I need to drink more and more to get the same perceived mental stimulation, and I start to feel discomfort/health side effects as a result of all that coffee. Anyway, the worst side effects of this ramping down period are caffeine headaches that I get mid-day. I tempered my headache today with a Coke at lunch. Already I’m starting to feel better overall though. Hopefully by end of week I’ll be completely off the Brown Horse (not to be confused with the white horse!) and maybe by the fall/winter I’ll kick the habit off again with a cup every day or three.

A Good Idea six years ago. A Good Idea now.

Unlike six years ago where there were only 2 major Web Browsers out there, today we have 3 major browsers out there for Windows: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera. For MacOS, there is Safari. For Linux, there is Konqueror. All are freely available. Now even though Internet Explorer is arguably the most-behind in support of web standards, it is still (by far) the most popular browser. Does anyone believe this has nothing to do with the fact that it is bundled with the most popular Operating System?

IE may have won Browser Wars I. I wonder how it will fare for Browser Wars II…

I’ve written about my love of TextPad before here. I just thought I’d post a couple quick tips about how to configure TextPad to view documents the way you like it. Click To Read More...

For over a month now, Opera has been the only major browser out there to currently support SVG natively (Firefox 1.1 will support a subset of SVG Full 1.1 but Fx 1.1 will likely be released in August). Opera has a great SVG Tiny implementation, but I’m posting my wish-list of things to fix for that implementation. Click To Read More...

I wrote a tutorial that delves into how to do shapes, colours and paths in SVG, it is in Draft state here. The tutorial has been tested on Opera 8, Firefox 1.1 (Alpha) and Internet Explorer + Adobe SVG Viewer. Please give it a read and send me comments.