May 26, 2005
"Browse the web at an angle"
Picture taken during Robert O'Callahan's SVG/canvas presentation at X-Tech May 26, 2005.
Comments
And so begins a whole new wave of "kewl" copy-and-paste scripts for the budding young web designer. Wait until the advert producers get their hands on this, they'll have a field day!
Posted by: Kroc Camen at May 26, 2005 6:46 AM
Hm, this screams for a new set of preferences and white-/blacklists for animated svg and canvas objects.
Posted by: tr at May 26, 2005 7:13 AM
The page was inside an SVG foreignObject element (in an experimental Firefox version using Cairo for rendering). It was slow as hell, there were rendering bugs (in the menu), and there was no double buffering so each page update was pretty visible... But still...
It was pretty damn cool to see!
~Grauw
Posted by: Laurens Holst at May 26, 2005 12:20 PM
I'm agnostic as to merits of this, but it does remind me of funny goings-on in the era when Netscape 3.0 had almost daily beta builds. There was such a swarm of little companies pressing to have their standard for "rich, virtual world" graphics that Netscape would build one beta to oblige each companyy. So, afterwards there were pleas from those companies: "Please use Netscape beta 37."
Posted by: ckjnigel at June 1, 2005 11:35 AM