ArtForms is a ASP.NET control for generating good looking buttons for your web pages. What’s cool about it is that it used our SVG renderer to actually create the buttons. It’s always nice to see your code being used for applications where you didn’t expect it :-)
Try the free version out if you want to see SVG(#) in action.
Craig Andrea has started a, so far, great introductionary tutorial to using DirectX from C#. Very interesting!
xml.com has an excellent introduction to XFML. Go read if you ever want to categorize your data.
The SVG working group over at W3C has always been really good at replying on public forums and been responsive to feedback. But, the charter has been confidential which has made it a bit hard to know what their aim with SVG has been.
Now, this has changed. The charter is now public and a roadmap for future SVG versions has been published.
Erik Stattin post a interesting link to an interview with Stephen Wolfrom, author of “A new kind of science” on his thoughts about the future of bioinformatics.
Eric van der Vlist announced a new version of Examplotron, the XML schema language based on example XML files. A pretty interesting experiment.
News in version 0.5 includes that the files are no longer converted to XSLT transformations but instead into Relax NG schemas.
Some day ago, Ian Tindale, posted a message about Adobe Imageviewer which actually turned out to be based on a new version of Adobe SVG Viewer. The viewer is bundled with Acrobat Reader and not directly usable as a browser plugin. Adobe’s Jon Ferraiolo confirmed this the same day
Of course, some people started playing with it. From a PDF posted by Dean Jackson we were able to extract an embedded SVG file that gave some clues.
Kevin Lindsey created a minimal PDF that could contain a SVG file and a script for creating it. He also showed that the new ASV now supports cursors (note: the linked PDF files all require Acrobat Reader 5.1 including the ImageViewer to work.
I’ve done some additional experiments:
Cursors can also be animated (note that if you’r on a Mac, this will likely crash your browser): example
And the most exciting news, it supports flowing text: (example). The syntax is not exactly that of the lastest SVG 1.2 draft (region instead of flowRegion), but that’s most likely just a timing issue.
According to Jon it also supports embedded video. In the PDF the Dean posted you can find traces of a video element in Adobe’s extension namespace. I have however failed to get it to work. Any clues would be welcome :-)
If you find out any other differences compared to ASV3, please email me.
Niklas | 
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01 29th, 2003| 