The Greys

It’s taken a long time to get there, but Google are now indexing the content of SVG files.
SVG is a vector graphics format which is similar in structure to the code that makes up an HTML web page. As well as the obvious graphical elements, SVG files often also include text (such as the speech [...]

Microsoft recently released a developer preview of what is to come in Internet Explorer 9, and I’m pleased to say that they’re (finally) starting to seriously catch up with all the other browser manufacturers when it comes to modern web standards support.
Of particular relevance to this site is that they will (finally) support SVG natively [...]

Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala, has been out for a couple of weeks now, so I upgraded my main desktop machine over the weekend. Well, I say upgraded, but what I actually mean is “went through the upgrade procedure, found that the machine wouldn’t boot anymore, so ended up doing an in-place reinstall instead.”
In fairness, this [...]

Either way, we’ve had some printed, A5 size. The full details are on our new “Promoting The Greys” page, complete with various associated downloads.

The latest version of Firefox was released a few days ago. It adds some great new features, including native audio and video support, but it’s worth taking a specific look at what 3.5 means for SVG:

There have been bug fixes, but as far as I can tell no new major functionality added to the basic [...]

I was reading Planet Ubuntu yesterday, and came across this blog entry about a particular use of SVG in the browser. In the comments someone mentioned an application called Scour for cleaning and sanitising SVG files. This was a new app to me, so I thought I’d mention it here.
The SVG files we make available [...]