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Tavmjong Bah
Personal blog · tavmjong.free.fr/blogprogrammingdesign
Tavmjong Bah's personal blog at tavmjong.free.fr covers programming and design. Since 2012, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “SVG 2 is on life support”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Tavmjong Bah's blog as a reference for SVG details, such as the linearRGB colour-interpolation option and the status of 3D vector features. The comments only link to it and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Tavmjong Bah's Home Page
Most-linked posts?
- SVG 2 is on life support3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-11-11
What Hacker News says?
Actually, that's not part of the standard yet, but at least somebody is working on it: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=316
Comment linking /blog/?p=316
on “Show HN: 3D Vector Graphics”Submitted SVG 2 is on life support as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThere is a "color-interpolation: linearRGB" option in SVG, which seems to be implemented by browsers. See http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/COLOR_INTERPOLATION/ for a more detailed examination.
Comment linking /SVG/COLOR_INTERPOLATION/
on “Alpha Compositing”Submitted SVG 2 is on life support (2016) as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> I've never worked hard on a public-facing project without hoping people would use it and find it useful // This is not incompatible with what I said. You can desire people to find and use a package without desiring to promote it in a standard marketing way. Perhaps the Inkscape team are happy with the ecosystem they have of supporters and users - that create such things as http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/ ,…
Comment linking /INKSCAPE/
on “LibreOffice 4.1 New Features and Fixes”Submitted SVG 2 Status as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI believe inkscape has this: http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-LivePathE...
Comment linking /INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Paths-LivePathEffects-PatternAlongPath.html
on “Draw SVG rope using JavaScript”Submitted Coons Patch Mesh Gradients in SVG (2012) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Morphing Batman Logos with SVG as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SVG 2 For Artists as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Paths: Stroking and Offsetting as a story · 1 points
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