November 2004
On Debian GNU/Linux I am attempting to use librsvg2
to render a
few small images (because Mozilla-based browsers cannot display SVG),
and the wrong font is being used. How do I find out how to correct this?
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At work I keep my work-log and my work plan in one big XML document
(actually one per client, for the sake of limiting the enormity of the
files). This single document is then sliced and diced through various
XSL transforms to create different views: for example, when you look at
the entry for one task, you see all the notes describing that task and
the work I did on it, and when you look at the log for a particular day,
you see the notes for that day regardless of which task they belong to.
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I created the new Percy Street graphic last night. Since I keep the info
about what graphics files go in which pages in an XML file, it is easy
to do this using XSLT—this is how the HTML pages are generated as
well. When there is a new last page, the link graphic will be updated automagically.
I spent some time trying to use animateColor
to animate the
highlight when you move the mouse over the links, but in the end there
were always problems with the animation being restarted and stuff so I
settled for the simpler option, set
.
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More than once I have moaned about the lack of useful SVG support in
Mozilla browsers such as FireFox. I installed FireFox 1.0 on my PowerBook this morning,
and when I visited my front page I was surprised and delighted to see
that the SVG graphics are being displayed!
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