SVG Moving Again.

SVG has been dead in the water for some time, but now there are signs of some movement.  Most importantly, Adobe has released a pre-release version of SVG Viewer 6.0.  FYI, SVG Viewer is an IE plug-in for displaying SVG graphics within web pages.  I hope they keep their asses moving so that all the SVG fanatics don't end up looking like fools.  Apache's Batik team has also released the final version of Batik 1.5, a Java implementation of SVG renderer.  You can find source, binaries, and list of changes here.  Yes, it is slow so get a fast machine if you want to sell it upstairs.

If the nonsense above made you wonder what SVG might be, it is an XML-based vector graphics format whose capabilities overlap Flash and Postscript to varying degrees but has a lot more.  As you know, a lot more can be a blessing as well as a curse.  We'll see how the future turns out.  Frankly, I like SVG in the same way as a fireman might smile while watching surfers frolic on the beach as the firetruck rushes by them.

Someday.  Someday.  Hopefully on a Sunday.

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Für den SysAdmin. This phpMyAdmin installation phpMyAdmin on OSX tutorial has been updated in order to add a MySQL control user and to change the authentication method from HTTP to a cookie-based method. Both of these changes were made to enhance security and should be easy to do retroactively, even if the previous instructions were used to install phpMyAdmin (simply perform step 6 and 10-14). [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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The document is the database.

When you need to store and display a modest amount of structured or semistructured data, it's tempting to store it directly in an HTML file. I've used this strategy many times; undoubtedly you have too. The advantages and disadvantages of working directly with a presentation format are pretty clear. It's handy that the "database" is a self-contained package that can be updated using any text editor, emailed, read directly from a file system, or served by any web server. But it's awkward to share the work of updating with other people or to isolate and edit parts of the file as it grows. When we convert to a database-backed web application in order to solve these problems, we trade away the convenience of the file-oriented approach. Can we have our cake and eat it too? This month's column explores the idea that a complete web application can be wrapped around an XHTML document, using XSLT for search, insert, and update functions. [Full story at O'Reilly Network]

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