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Last Monday, NBC’s Heroes returned from its many-week hiatus. The story kept moving and there were lots of cool things that happened or were revealed this week. Spoiler Warnings apply if you haven’t seen it yet. Click To Read More...

I have a bunch of different Subversion repositories where I store documents. Occasionally I’ll place some unversioned files in these directories while working on something. Today I needed to take a snapshot of the contents of my hard drive but I didn’t want to keep all the hidden .svn directories. Here’s what worked for me. Click To Read More...

I’ve admired Sam Ruby’s desire to use inline SVG for his blog - I think his clip art adds visual appeal to his site. I wish I had Sam’s artistic sensibilities/patience (or that slipping into a scotch-induced trance would help). But artistic ability aside, I have been struggling with inline SVG as a concept since then. I thought I’d outline the advantages and disadvantages to inline SVG as I see them. Click To Read More...

Thanks to Mike, I now have Webkit SVG results to show at my SVG Support page. Current (April 2007) Webkit builds score a 55%, which is roughly comparable to Firefox 3 nightlies. Firefox 3 adds support for some Filter Effects, while Webkit currently has better Text support. For a first release, this will be fantastic - congratulations to the Webkit team!

I published my results of running ten different SVG implementations through the SVG Test Suite. Click To Read More...

Sometimes it’s not obvious how a document is being interpreted by a web browser. For instance, you might write some XHTML 1.1, but the browser actually interprets it as HTML 4. You may be expecting the browser to be using Standards Mode (recommended), but it might actually be using Quirks Mode because you missed the DOCTYPE statement. I’ll periodically update this blog entry to keep track of how to do this stuff in a variety of browsers. Click To Read More...

Here’s a mess of notes from the World Of SVG that you might find exciting (I certainly did!) Click To Read More...