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 »
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 »
Although the debate continues to rage between the XML as documents camp and the XML as data camp, it seems reasonable to believe that both styles are here to stay. I have noticed one trend in XML data that strikes me as déjà vu all over again. There seem to be a large number of… Read More »
In most of the SVG I’ve seen people either prefer to use the style attribute or set the individual style attributes. I don’t see much use of CSS classes and I wonder why. Most of the criticisms I’ve seen of the use of CSS fall into four categories: It’s not XML. It’s too verbose to… Read More »
Someone asked a question about updating SVG dynamically from a server on the SVG Developers list this morning. One of the (many) responses pointed to an article on SVG server-side. As usual, I went to check it out to see if it might hold some tidbits I could use. Or maybe, it could be a… Read More »