Short Stuff
I’ve been doing a lot of website stuff this week. Here’s some highlights: W3C Working Group Sites A few weeks ago, after long neglect, I finally updated the SVG WG page with a template that better...
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Favatars
What’s a favatar? It’s a favicon! It’s an avatar! It’s a portmanteau! Well, really, a favatar is a profile picture hosted at the URL a commenter provides, with the filename favatar.png. I made it up!...
View ArticleThe Map is not Proprietary
Korzybski remarked that “the map is not the territory”, reminding us that we shouldn’t confuse our mental models for reality. But maps, and data visualizations of all kinds, are really powerful,...
View ArticlePointers on Background of SVG Borders on Mutiny
With SVG being integrated more and more into HTML5, both included via <object> and <img> elements, and inline in the same document, some natural questions about SVG and CSS are receiving...
View ArticleSVG Game Resources
Mozilla is holding an Open Web Games competition. I expect that many of the games will be use the Canvas API, since many programmers are more familiar with the imperative programming mode, and there...
View ArticleTranslation Services at a Loss for Words
Text in SVG is text. Visually, you can use webfonts like WOFF or SVG Fonts (where they are supported, like in Opera or the iPhone) to make it look cool, and you can style both the stroke and fill to...
View ArticleGetting In Touch
Last week, I published the first draft (and subsequent updates) of the Web Interface specification, which defines touch events. This is the first spec from the new W3C Web Events Working Group....
View ArticleRetain Accessibility Immediately
There has been a heated argument recently on the W3C Canvas API mailing list between accessibility advocates and browser vendors over a pretty tricky topic: should the Canvas API have graphical...
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Archived Link Thunderbird Extension
This week is our first Geek Week at W3C. The idea is to have a week where we improve our skills, collaborate with each other on prototypes and fun projects that help W3C, and to come up for air from...
View ArticleWebFonts in SVG
Several times recently, people have asked on IRC how they can use nice fonts with SVG. My answer in the long-ago past, when Adobe’s excellent SVG Viewer plugin roamed the Earth, was to use SVG Fonts...
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Annotators Anonymous
My name is Doug Schepers… and I’m an annotator. You might be an annotator, too. If you think you might be, you should come to our support workshop in San Francisco in April. I first realized I had an...
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Recipe for Spam
I just found this combinatorial comment trapped in my spam filter. It’s interesting to see how the raw script is composed, so they can randomly select phrases, perhaps to throw off spam filters; this...
View Article@_Lance_Leonard Hard G, like “Graphics”. Obviously.
@_Lance_Leonard Hard G, like “Graphics”. Obviously.
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