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Opera Software released a public alpha version of a new developer tool named Dragonfly.
The Dragonfly alpha release will upgrade automatically and includes a JavaScript Debugger, DOM and CSS Inspectors, Error Console and Command Line. To try it out, visit the Dragonfly product page for a free download.
To learn how more about how to use Opera Dragonfly head on over to dev.opera.com for an introduction.
Note especially that Opera is looking for feedback and that your input will help make the developer tools even better.
Mihai Sucan has written an excellent article on How to make a Voice controlled SVG game over on dev.opera.com.
From the article:
The game I have built displays several objects on screen, and the object of the game is to make all the objects have the same shape and color - you can do this by issuing voice commands ot the page, such as "change the blue squares to red triangles" or "switch the yellow shapes to circles". Once a player does so they win and the game ends. The game allows you to change various parameters such as the number of objects and players.
Among the exciting features is a much higher stability as well as the Internet Explorer® Plugin and the Windows® Explorer® Plugin have been improved and do integrate perfectly. The RENESIS Core Engine has received a lot of attention and features an almost complete CSS 2.1 Engine, external stylesheets, almost complete DOM 3 Core and DOM 3 Events Support as well as increased compability with the SVG 1.1 Standard including the new support for Masks and Clipping, Text on Pathes, Embedded SVG Images, Embedded SVG Fonts, Support for switch Statements and much more.
Behind the scenes, event not noticeable on first sight, a lot of perfomance and memory tuning has been done. Through a new caching and update region algorithm, repainting happens a lot faster than ever before and partly beats out the Adobe® SVG Viewer application. There are still a lot of things to do to improve overall perfomance, especially on text and referenced elements, but overall, the perfomance has highly increased and does no longer depend on the actual size of the svg document or on how many objects are placed around.
More on the examotion Website
"The demand for customized handsets and improved user experience continues to increase," said Nico Finke, head of product management at Esmertec. "This partnership allows us to deliver high-quality 2D-graphics technology to our customers. We look forward to providing Quickoffice's products and continue our commitment to being the best in the industry."
http://www.quickoffice.com/news/quickoffice-press-releases/2008-press-releases/press-release-april-22-2008/
Dallas, Texas, April 1, 2008: "Quickoffice, Inc., the leading global provider of innovative software and solutions for the mobile business professional, today announced its Scalable Vector Graphics Tiny (SVGT) Platform has been selected by ARM to be optimized for the ARM Mali Graphics Architecture. The partnership will benefit developers of ARM technology-based system-on-chip (SoC) designs, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and mobile platform vendors, such as Symbian and Windows Mobile.
http://www.quickoffice.com/news/quickoffice-press-releases/2008-press-releases/press-release-april-1-2008/
GEMï (ex GUI) is a multiple windows system with scroll bars, resize, collapse and restore, move, zoom, menus (file open and close), dialogs, windows tabs, thumbnails, colorpicker, preferences, selective print, info, online help. It's main vocation is to be used on the web or private network. In remote use it can open project's files and save the user preferences.
GEMï is under LGPL license.
http://www.dotuscomus.com/svg/lib/library.html#gemi
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"Utilizing the Open Mobile Alliance Rich Media Environment (OMA-RME) application framework layer and a connected device such as a mobile handset or PC, MobiTV will provide an array of interactive applications to the field trial including voting, polling, mCommerce, interactive advertising, real-time audience measurement and key reporting capabilities that drive unique measurement. These enhancements will become indispensable in defining the next generation of mobile television applications and business models. MobiTV is working with world class partners including BitFlash and VisualOn, to create a ubiquitous reference standard and client platform ready for mass deployment across a wide variety of devices."
http://www.mobitv.com/about/press/releases/page=press/release_041408a
The English and French editions of the LearnSVG.com ebook is now available for free and can be downloaded here: Learn SVG.
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest
version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a
major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of
PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to
editing PDF documents.
Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this
release. Dialogs now have the ability to be docked to the editing
window. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas. The new Paint
Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with color. A new 3D Box tool helps
create perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool provides an
intuitive method for editing paths and painting objects. The new Live
Path Effects feature can create "brushes" and various organic effects
on paths. Improvements to color management include support for color
spaces other than sRGB. Most SVG filters are now implemented, and a
new powerful UI is provided for editing filter stacks.
Download Inkscape 0.46 for Linux, Windows or Mac OS X
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New to all this, but you folks may be interested.
I've made a server that converts Blazonry (the jargon for describing coats of arms) into SVG. The SVG I produce, near as I can tell, is mostly valid, though no web browser seems to be able to handle it well, and of libraries only rsvglib works right. So by default the server converts to PNG, but there's an option to see the SVG instead.
Take a look at http://web.meson.org/blazonserver/ and let me know what you think!
The SVG Open 2008 abstract submission forms are available. SVG Open is the worldwide SVG developers conference targeting SVG content developers and users, tool makers and people interested in advancing the SVG and related W3C specifications.
Please submit your abstracts at http://www.svgopen.org/ → Registration.
Looking forward to receiving many interesting abstracts!
Thursday it's Valentines day. Surprise your love with a personalized moving message at her mobile via svghearts.com and i bet you she will show it off (coders can of course easily make more adjustments, like inserting a photo).
Frank Bruder posted a tutorial on how to install Apache Batik on Windows and integrate it with the Windows Explorer. After the installation, users can open and convert SVG files to PNGs or PDFs directly from the Windows Explorer by right-clicking the SVG file. Additionally, truetype fonts can be converted to SVG fonts.
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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