As in http://antimatter15.110mb.com/phpfusion/news.php?readmore=26 there was a bug where though I claimed support for Safari 3, it wouldn’t work. Well that (as outlined in detail) because I had done some extreme compression on the prototype library, which I never tested (couldn’t) on a Safari 3 installation.

It has now been fixed.

I’ve decided to remove the pop-up ads, due to how *nobody* likes them. I’ll expect my adsense to take a rather steep dive soon (it wasn’t all that great anyway, like 50 cents a day) but I don’t want to be a hippocrite and value money over customer satisfaction (that sounds awefully clichéd).

Ajax Animator will be able to support polylines probably by 0.17 (0.16 is just a UI revamp)

All the client-code necessary for polylines are now fully functional because of the brilliant work of josep_ssv. The server-side generation system still has to be implemented (along with the tweening engine, which shoudnt be that hard since all necesssary is looping thorugh the values and applying a transformation)

I have this other project i’m working on (not flash related) now. But once i’m finished up with the Ext 2.01 update….

anyways, the ext 2 update is going through some problems, mainly, i the color picker is weird with the stable Ext 2. And i’m not exactly sure how to get history panel working again

so this project is still alive

What features would you like? (Post Comment)

Would you like the interface to be rearranged? Different Help/Tutorial API? More User-Oriented system? Animation Grading system? More information in flash files? etc?

For the billionth time, i decided to try getting IE to work.

First I patched svgrenderer.js to be more IE friendly (setAttribute instead of setAttributeNS)

Then I opened up IESVG.htc from http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2006/03/svg-in-ie-update/

first of all, i needed to convert that to javascript that is supported by firefox (it’s hopeless developing for IE), after running a few regexps to the source code, it worked. I could dynamically convert SVG to VML. I tested it on ajax animator with a simple convert($(“richdraw1″).firstChild).innerHTML

since it’s easier to build off a simpler (very very much) smaller codebase for a proof-of-concept, i used richdraw demo app. Since the code for richdraw hasn’t been updated much, and remains implementation-independant, not requiring any other components. i loaded the script, and ran the script. I could draw on the canvas (blindly), but i could in fact draw. to check, i pressed the view-source button, and there it was: SVG code.

the drawback of this method, even if you include the SVG to VML converter, is that you will never be able to select, delete, or move drawn objects

of course, this really means nothing. I need a SVG to VML AND a SVG to VML converter.

Anyways 0.16.x releases are just supposed to be Ext 2.0 releases, not IE support releases. Maybe 0.17.x or 0.18.x, but hopefully by 0.20.0

Development has been slowed, because of the huge task i’m doing (upgrading to ext 2.0), and i’ve been interested in different projects. I have started development on a desktop flash IDE (much more drawing functionality-faster etc.) coded in C# (which i suck at). i also am working on a stop-motion animation studio (nothing much, just to test my skills, in VB.NET), and a filesystem mounting stystem (also VB.NET)

The desktop flash ide is somthing i’m hoping can be done in less than a day. Which for proprietary applications is impossible, but i’m demonstrating the micacle of open source, i’m building off of a built SVG engine (SVGPaint). So all i have to do, is to hack into it’s saving mechanism and save automatically to an automatically generated filename, and build an application that creates an xml file that links to all the SVGs (swfmill parses XML, and it supports importing SVG!) Making the XML should be as easy as appending a string from a for loop. and hacking the saving engine should be easy if i can pinpoint the code. After that is done, i’ll leave it to the community.

While developing on the linux platform, I managed to get Opera to be supported, since Safari doesn’t work on linux (or wine), and i was unable to compile webkit from svn, i wrongfully assumed that Safari would still work. I just tested it out on Safari 3 and it turns out it doesn’t work. The problem is all in prototype.superlite.js (my hacked together version of Prototype.js)