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6th International Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics
26th to 28th August
Nuremberg | Germany
The world conference on SVG, the versatile 'HTML of graphics' standard, this year takes place in the beautiful city center of Nuremberg. That is in the south of Germany, a country in which many people watch Football through SVG-enabled phones, or maybe pick the seat for their flights on SVG-enabled websites. Nueremberg does even have its own SVG Logo that can be seen here!
On this conference you can learn about subjects varying from specialized technical visualizations to interactive multimedia art. On the program there are presentations, beginner and advanced level workshops, a technical exhibition, and the opportunity to meet people from the SVG community, industry and the W3C SVG Working Group.
SVG Open 2008 is organised by examotion in affiliation with W3C.
Excited to contribute and participate? Click here for more details ...
The above is all copied shamelessly of the SVG Open website
Here are some usefull resources for Turkish webmasters and designers for SVG.
Good luck for all. Best regards.
KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 5.1, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. It features various tools for optimizing content creation, giving designers unsurpassed support for creativity. These tools include property palette, source editor, resources editor, SVG specific shape tools, transformation tools, and additional illustration tools. Sketsa uses SVG as a native file format.
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The Apache Batik team is proud to announce the release of Apache Batik version 1.7, a Java-based toolkit for processing SVG.
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I've long been interested in SVG, and have been thinking that it would make a good target runtime platform for OpenLaszlo applications so I decided to see how difficult it would be to port the DHTML kernel (which is still under development) to SVG. With native browser support going strong, it seemed perfectly achievable.
In about two days of hacking I got a large part of the Sprite API ported to SVG. Here is a simple demo of the SVG kernel running:
If time permits, I will try to clean up the code for my SVG kernel enough to release it, please contact me through comments here if you are interested. There are remaining bugs but it is overall good.
SVG Map consortium released SVG Map Toolkit 0.3.0 that aims to become a standard Web Map platform. It is also high-performance SVG Viewer for Internet Explorer that enhances the SVG 1.1 Tiny specification.
SVG Map Toolkit can be downloaded from the following link.
http://blog.svg-map.com/2007/12/svg_map_toolkit.html
Moreover, the world SVG map based on VMAP can be browsed from the following link by using SVG Map Toolkit.
http://blog.svg-map.com/2007/11/tiny_svg_base_m.html
This map is scrollable and zoomable. And, In a part of region in Japan, 1:25000 scale map that Geographical Survey Institute of Japan is publishing will be able to be browsed by zooming up.
Sketsa SVG Editor 5.0 just released, Now by popular request we are going to develop SVG animation plugins module for the Sketsa. We are stuck at how the UI will flow, do you like the way Adobe Flash Editor, Jasc Webdraw, or you prefer new ways for doing animation editor, etc ?
Please see this blog entry http://blogs.kiyut.com/tonny/2007/12/06/svg-animation-editor-feedback/
If possible, please copy or post the reply to that blogs entry as well,
so we could easily look all the feedback in one location :)
Any feedback is very appreciated and help us a lot in developing this
animation editor.
KIYUT just released Sketsa SVG Editor 5.0, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. The visual design tools allows designer to select, draw, and edit objects easily, while the integrated DOM Editor and SVG source editor allows them to hand edit SVG source code for greater control.
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A web based graphics application using SVG and Javascript. It is supported by all mozilla based browsers and Opera. Demo of the application is at customi.se
and at
svg application
Application has the following features:
1) Desktop behaviour, use of arrow keys to move the objects, delete the object.
2) Freehand drawing tool
3) Import the image in drawing in PNG format
4) Edit the properties of the objects viz; width, height, stroke, font size, font-color.
For application source code of the application, email me at amaltas [at] amaltas.org
Opera Software today released a new build of Opera 9.50 (Windows only for the moment, video support is being ported to other OS) which includes support for the SVG Tiny 1.2 video element. The Ogg Theora video format is supported (as used, for example, by Wikipedia, or Dell).
An article at Opera Labs describes this new build and includes links to three SVG demos which, interestingly, combine SVGT 1.2 video with SVGF 1.1 features like filters, masks, and clipping:
(you will need an SVGT 1.2-enabled browser or viewer, naturally. So download Opera first).
And remember to view source because, with SVG, you can do that and see how it works...
Safari 3 final has shipped as part of Mac OS X Leopard with an identical SVG feature set to the Safari 3 Beta. It's great to see yet another browser shipping with native SVG support. Those tracking Apple's progress know that recent WebKit nighty builds already demonstrate much more advanced SVG support than that shipping with Safari 3.
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The cross-platform development environment 4D v11 SQL has just been released with built-in support for SVG rendering and a rich set of picture conversion and transformation tools. 4D v11 SQL includes an HTTP server and a SQL server making it a good tool to build a web server producing and serving SVG files.
We just released Sketsa SVG Graphics Editor 5.0-beta1, a cross platform vector drawing application based on SVG. Please keep in mind this is beta version and is therefore unstable). It is available from our site in the under download section.
Note: If you have access to Mac OSX, would you mind to try the new Mac OSX installer, and send us a feedback regarding this new Mac OSX installer, or any feedback either Windows/Mac OSX/Linux, etc is very appreciated. You may sent the feedback to support (at) kiyut.com
New York MobileMonday is to include a round-table discussion: The Ubiquitous Web: Making It Happen featuring:
- Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group
- Carl Taylor, Director of Applications & Services, Hutchison Whampoa Europe
- Charles McCathieNevile, Chief Standards Officer, Opera Software (best browser-native SVG support)
- Sean Owen, Software Engineer, Google
- Vance P. Hedderel, Director, PR and Communications, dotMobi
The panel will be moderated by Lubna Dajani, co-founder of MobileMonday New York and CEO of Stratemerge.
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