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Tag Archives: Software

Spam Wars: Round 1… Fight!

My blog has been receiving a lot of spam lately, at a rate of about 50 dummy comments per day. As my current web hosting doesn’t allow me to open socket connections, a part of WordPress functionality (including Akismet, the spam checker plug-in shipped with WordPress) won’t work. I knew about the limitations and am [...]

Using HTML for SVG intra-navigation

I’ve just finished a demo which tries to fill a long caveat among SVG implementations: a consistent front-end for internal document navigation (zoom, pan, etc.). It took me a while to workaround and document a few subtle bugs in several implementations, as well as recently integrating SVG Web, which has it’s own set of limitations, [...]

“Introducing” Adobe SVG Viewer 8

A common belief is that ASV 6 Developer Release 1 was the last version of the famous Adobe SVG Viewer software (ASV 3.03 being the last stable release). Well, apparently not…
Distributed with Adobe Reader 8, one can take a peek at the ImageViewer.API file, placed within the plug_ins directory (full path will typically [...]