Tag: SVG

Google Image Search just got a bit fancier: You can now filter search results to only include SVG files. SVG files, which stand for Scalable Vector Graphics, are files you can easily edit and change without loss of definition. If you've been following our Corel tutorials, they might have given you some ideas about the power of vector graphics. Being able to use Google to find such files ...

Watch out, Inkscape! As Web browsers become increasingly powerful, it is only a matter of time until a free browser-based vector graphics editor pops up that is powerful enough to compete with a desktop application -- and SVG-edit may well become that editor. Currently in version 2.5, this open-source project was surprisingly responsive and powerful on my aging Firefox 3.6.8. The one thing I ...

Most commercial products run a fairly set course; you get Microsoft Office 1.5, then 1.6, 3.0, 4.0, all the way up to office 2010 (For Windows, at least). It's a fairly orderly progression, with version numbers rising over time – pretty easy to follow. Open-source projects are a different beast, however. When enough developers don't like the direction a project is going, they sometimes just ...

Currently available in the Firefox 4 nightly builds, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support is due to be rolled out with the next iteration of the Firefox 4 beta. For those not in the know, SVG is a family of 2D XML-based image formats that can be created as either static or dynamic images, similar to what you can do with GIFs. The benefit of using vector graphics over raster or bitmap formats, ...

With classic, why-does-the-universe-hate-me irony it seems that Mozilla had a flurry of activity while I was on vacation. Except the Thunderbird Contacts thing that Lee gushed about earlier this week, there's been absolutely nothing since I got back. Incidentally, if you still haven't downloaded the FF4.0 beta 2, you should do that now. The first release candidate should be only a couple of months ...

Slightly ahead of schedule, Microsoft has just squeezed out the fourth and final IE9 developer preview. From the outset, the news is much the same as the previous release: More hardware acceleration! Faster! More standards compliant! But there's some juicy stuff under the hood, too -- read on, if you want technical details. If you want developer-level stuff, check the IE team's new blog post. ...

You thought GPU-accelerated fonts in Firefox were cool...? Well, Internet Explorer 9 will go one HUGE step further: GPU-accelerated HTML5. Websites will, at long last, be hardware accelerated -- as long as you're using IE9 anyway. I have no idea why we've had to wait quite this long for DirectX utilization in the browser. Zooming, scrolling, physics -- all REALLY fast, really smooth. They ...

Ever see an icon you like, but when you go to download it, you find out it's in the wrong format? You could copy and paste it into an image editor, and save it in the correct format, but some editors don't save .icns, .ico, or other popular icon types. iConvert does, though, and it's web-based. It also works with Windows, Mac and Linux-compatible formats. Just upload a file in any one of the ...

Hot on the heels of 2.0, the Firefox team have posted the first Alpha release of Firefox 3.0, "Gran Paradiso". Some of the new features include the use of Cairo as the graphics library, Cocoa Widgets on Mac OS X, and improved SVG specification compliance. Builds are available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Before reporting any bugs, make sure to check the Known Issues list, and happy testing! ...

Mozilla has released a 2nd alpha version of Firefox 2.0. As usual, this release is not recommended for any kind of serious use, but if you're salivating at some of the new version's features, check out what has been incorporated in this 2nd development milestone: Links default to opening in new tabs, not new windows Close buttons now appear on every tab, and the close behavior is slightly ...

Textorizer is an odd little web service that will take any image you give it and turn it into an SVG image made out of the text you supply. It's pretty cool and the edge-detection works pretty well, though obviously it works better with things with solid edges like logos and illustrations. I'm not entirely sure what it's useful for just yet, and unfortunately missing is a way to change the font or ...

I think it's only a matter of time before Google brings something more like Google Earth to web browsers, but in the meantime check out 3D Maps, a Japanese proof-of-concept that takes map images from Google Maps and uses SVG to transform them into a pseudo-3D tilted view. It only works with Firefox 1.5 and is pretty slow, but is cool nonetheless. If you read Japanese there's some technical ...