May 3
Mediation
icon1 Niklas | icon2 Tags: . | icon4 05 3rd, 2005| icon3No Comments »

As usual, Sean McGrath nails it. His hypothesis is that EAI integration is all about dispute resolution. As someone working every day with EAI integration (more on that soon) I couldn’t agree more. We spend all our time mediating systems as well as people. The people building applications are just as different as applications themselves. This means being in a room with 60 year old guys who knows Cobol/RPG/APL inside out as well as the 25 year olds who loves .NET/J2EE. And to get them and their applications talking to each other. The methods for getting an application to exchange data has varied greatly during the last 25 years and we need to handle them all.

It’s a very interesting and challenging job (btw, if your interested and based in Sweden, contact me).

May 3
SVG enabled
icon1 Niklas | icon2 Tags: , . | icon4 05 3rd, 2005| icon3No Comments »

Tor has checked in some of the final missing pieces for fully enabling SVG in Firefox 1.1. First, the special build names has been removed (you know, for example with -svg-gdiplus) and SVG has been enabled (you now longer have to change the svg.enabled property to see SVG). This is very cool! We are now close to finally getting good (albeit not yet perfect) SVG support in the second and third most prevalent browsers out there (I have no hopes for native support in IE). SVG 1.1 (especially mixed in the same document/DOM as (X)HTML) is a powerful tool in the web developers toolbox and this might actually make quite a difference.

Now, how long until Google Maps comes in SVG?