At the end of 2008, I did a series of posts arguing that SVG still lives despite predictions of it’s downfall. I had been hearing these dire predictions for years, and wanted to provide a decent rebuttal: Reports of SVG’s death exaggerated. Last year, I had the good fortune to go to SVG Open 2009.… Read More »
In the past few months, I have been focusing more on SVG. The most important reason was the SVG Open 2009 conference the first weekend of October.1 Some truly amazing demos and research are being done in this area despite nay-sayers claiming that the technology is dead. Some of the biggest announcements leading up to… Read More »
In my last post, I talked about a quick little project that has grown into experimenting with several new tools/processes. I finally got a reasonable release out on CPAN as SVG::Sparkline version 0.30. This version supports 6 different sparkline types: Area, Bar, Line, RangeArea, RangeBar, and Whisker. It also has better documentation in the form… Read More »
For the last few weeks, I’ve been working on a Perl module for creating Sparklines* in SVG. The original purpose of the project was a demonstration of working with SVG from the Perl programming language. It was intended to be an example in a talk I was going to give for our local Perl Mongers… Read More »
This is the last in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. In the subsequent posts, I refuted each of the major claims that I have seen for the death of SVG. Those claims were: Death by lack… Read More »
This is the next in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. Each subsequent post takes a claim and refutes it. The Claim SVG is dead because it is not supported by Internet Explorer This argument is possibly… Read More »
This is the next in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. Each subsequent post takes a claim and refutes it. The Claim SVG is useless because it doesn’t support video or audio. It’s time to go back… Read More »
This is the next in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. Each subsequent post takes a claim and refutes it. The Claim SVG is useless because it doesn’t support even basic 3D features This claim makes a… Read More »
This is the second in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the last post, Reports of SVG‘s death exaggerated, I gave a little history and refresher on SVG. This time I will try to tackle one of the claims about the death of SVG. The Claim SVG… Read More »
A message appeared recently on the SVG Development mailing list that, once again, predicts the death of SVG. This meme comes up pretty regularly on the various mailing lists for SVG. Most of them are trolls, of course. But this one got me thinking again about what SVG is and what it is not. I… Read More »