Simon Willison’s Weblog

Fixing IE by porting Canvas to Flash. Implementing canvas using Flash is an obvious step, but personally I’m much more interested in an SVG renderer using Flash that finally brings non-animated SVGs to IE.

# 15th March 2009, 1:34 pm / svg, flash, canvas, ie

Using SVG on the Web. I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with SVG recently. Here are some useful tips for including SVG images in HTML and XHTML documents.

# 23rd December 2008, 1 pm / svg, html, xhtml, benjamin-smedberg

Notes from Hack Day at The Guardian. Our first hack day was a ridiculous amount of fun. Matt’s write-up includes a 15 minute highlight video, which includes my 90 second presentation of my crowdsourcing SVG-powered parliamentary constituencies hack.

# 18th November 2008, 11:42 pm / hacks, hackday, the-guardian, matt-mcalister, svg

Hack Day at the Guardian. Video of the demos from the first Hack Day at the Guardian. I presented a crowdsourcing app I used to collect annotations for an SVG map of the UK.

# 18th November 2008, 5:58 pm / guardian, hackday, svg

It’s a purple world. Stuart Langridge made a purplish map of the US election results, using JSON data from Google and an SVG map of the US from Wikipedia.

# 6th November 2008, 8:26 pm / stuart-langridge, uselection, svg, wikipedia

OSM Super-Strength Export. Awesome new feature on OpenStreetMap: you can browse to anywhere on the map, then hit “export” and download a rendered bitmap or vector (PDF and SVG) image of the currently displayed map—and because it’s OSM there’s no watermark and a very liberal usage license.

# 22nd April 2008, 9:56 am / openstreetmap, maps, mapping, svg, pdf, vector

PrinceXML is extremely impressive. I had a poke at Prince (a commercial package for generating high quality PDFs from HTML, XML, CSS and SVG) a few weeks ago and was similarly impressed.

# 8th February 2008, 12:02 pm / princexml, xml, css, ryan-tomayko, svg

SVG and text/html. Anne van Kesteren discusses the need for SVG and MathML to be embeddable in HTML 5, not just XHTML.

# 17th October 2007, 4:06 pm / html, html5, svg, annevankesteren, xhtml, mathml

Opera 9.5 (Kestrel). The latest Opera alpha includes a bunch of CSS3 features (including an almost full implementation of CSS3 Selectors) as well as the ability to use SVG for scalable background images.

# 4th September 2007, 10:49 am / svg, opera, opera95, css3, selectors, annevankesteren, browsers, releases

Inline SVG in MSIE. Sam Ruby has a neat proof of concept that converts inline SVG (currently only the path element) to the Silverlight equivalent.

# 4th May 2007, 7:29 pm / svg, sam-ruby, silverlight

Create cross browser vector graphics. An accessible introduction to dojo.gfx, a powerful 2D drawing API built on SVG and VML.

# 20th December 2006, 12:42 am / svg, drawing, dojo, 2d, vml, javascript

SVG and XHTML: Like oil and water. Getting the two to mix takes a lot more effort than you might think.

# 29th July 2006, 8:50 am / svg

Surfin’ Safari: SVG Has Landed. Now in Safari nightly builds.

# 18th December 2005, 8:21 pm / svg

Using SVG for paths in Google Maps with Deer Park. Mind bending Google Maps API hackery.

# 12th September 2005, 12:07 am / svg

XML.com: Automated Tree Drawing: XSLT and SVG. Includes a recursive text parser in XSLT. May cause your brain to melt.

# 9th September 2004, 2:14 am / svg

Creating an SVG Wiki (via) If only the Mozilla SVG project would produce the goods

# 26th November 2003, 1:02 am / svg