Rather than twittering these and missing a sizable chunk of people who might be interested, I thought I’d post a couple quick links to very cool news in the SVG world:
- Apple finally pushed a firmware update to their iPhones that makes Safari support SVG. I first heard about it here and then Doug blogged about it.
- Mozilla finally landed SVG effects for HTML, presumably for Firefox 3.1 but I’ll be keeping an ear to roc’s blog for further updates on that.
- Work on the Flex SVG Viewer (FSV) has started to pick up. It is now released under the MIT license and just had its first contributed patch. More on this at a later time.
- Some guy named Tim Berners-Lee chastised Internet Explorer for not supporting SVG and that article has been picked up by the Associated Press - who does he think he is?
- The W3C SVG Interest Group garnered several new members within the last couple days and chatter has picked up on the Mailing List which is a hopeful sign that we’re starting to gel a bit. If you care about SVG and can help in some tangible way, I invite you to consider joining.
Excellent news.
Can we expect a mobile Safari addition to your SVG support chart?
2008-09-11 @ 8:58 AM
@Fyrd: Unless someone wants to buy me an iPhone or iPod Touch… not gonna happen any time soon
2008-09-11 @ 9:33 AM
Jeff, is it possible to subscribe to the SVG-IG mailing list without joining (in receive-only mode or not) ?
2008-09-11 @ 1:47 PM
@David: I just discovered this myself, the public-svg-ig mailing list archive does sport a feed for just this purpose.
2008-09-11 @ 3:17 PM
Glad you didn’t only post on Twitter, or I would have missed all the news. That is a lot of good news, and considerable activity. Rather liked the Tim B-L tongue lashing.
2008-09-11 @ 8:53 PM
The WebKit SquirrelFish logo is now SVG with animation!
See http://webkit.org/blog-files/animation-demo.svg
2008-09-21 @ 1:58 PM