Dudley Storey — Using SVG

Dudley Storey is a Smashing Magazine contributing editor, teacher and speaker, his new book Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5 is scheduled to be released later this Spring.

Dudley Storey is a Smashing Magazine contributing editor, teacher and speaker, his new book Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5 is scheduled to be released later this Spring.

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Dudley’s Blog
@DudleyStorey on Twitter
Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5
Amelia
Dudley’s New Media Production and Design Course
Books written by Christopher Schmitt
The SVG Summit
What is SVG 2?
SVG Support in WordPress
Sarah Drasner SVG Animations
Rachel Andrew CSS Grid
Perch CMS
Jeremy Keith
Tantek
Flickr
Adobe Illustrator
SVG O
GreenSock

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3:05 The program that Dudley currently teaches about media
5:15 Learning about CD-ROMs in college.
6:35 HTML tables vs CSS layout in the old days
7:15 Dudley’s beef with hacker schools or code schools
9:05 It’s like you’re looking through the wrong end of the telescope
10:15 The host would like to see a certification course of semantic HTML and why
12:03 Dudley is still working for Smashing Magazine and is now also a technical editor.
13:55 What’s it like to be an editor for Smashing magazine?
15:10 You can put whatever you want on your blog.
16:03 Blogging versus magazine submission versus tweeting; when to use each
18:55 All of Christopher’s photos are on Flicker, but Flicker is becoming outdated. What to do next with the content.
20:01 Dudley built thenewcode.com as an accurate, consistent database on CSS Scripts and functions that is not out there yet.
21:50 Eventually Facebook will go away. People will lose a big portion of their lives when it goes away
24:30 When content is no longer accurate, Dudley goes back his website to update the data and an example of it
25:42 Technology going through growing pains.
27:50 Twitter for example has a lot of big community problems because sites simply want a lot of users then react to the problems after
29:59 Twitter has a social engineering problem.
31:02 A little bit about the book “Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5”
32:50 Description of SVG2 and how it relates to SVG
33:30 Strokes in SVG and SVG2
34:30 SVG is not an image format but is a document format
35:55 Plugins for everything.
36:45 How is book writing for the web and what is the process of it
39:10 The lightbulb moment when someone gets it.
40:01 The joys of helping people who understand things because of your book or teaching
41:21 Which portions Dudley is writing in the book, including SVG tools, CSS and SVG properties, SVG and interactive activities
42:40 SVG Export issues and challenges.
46:00 Discussion on the IE issue with width and height
47:00 A lot of the SVG presentation attributes are moved to CSS properties
49:11 Are standards current in modern browsers?
50:09 SVG animations and Green Sock animation library as well as native animation
51:20 What type of simple CSS animations could you do before you grab Green Sock?
52:30 SVG and data visualization
54:40 Preview of the book available right now