[SGVLUG] SGVLUG meeting tonite, Gavin and Chris should be presenting topics

[matti]

Hi!!

Tonite Gaving Doughtie should be giving a quick
presentation before Chris on

*No Flash Required: Interactive Browser Graphics*

(gavin will be giving a full presentaton on this
at the upcomng OScon.)

thanks!
matti

ps - Gavin, Chris can you confirm for tonite.

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Gavin Doughtie 
<http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/view/e_spkr/2765>
Gavin Doughtie writes software for DreamWorks Animation. Previously, he

worked on multiuser games for Sony, web sites for idealab, and the 
Picasa photo management application. Doughtie enjoys exploring all the 
places where technology and creativity meet. He lives with a beautiful 
blogger and two brilliant sons in Pasadena, California.

*No Flash Required: Interactive Browser Graphics*
Gavin Doughtie 
<http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/view/e_spkr/2765>
**

Browser-based applications sometimes feel clunky compared to their 
standalone counterparts due to a lack of interactivity and graphical 
richness. Until recently, interactive graphics in the browser meant 
resorting to plugins like Flash or Java applets.

Now, however, newer versions of all the popular web browsers support at

least one method of drawing client-side graphics via JavaScript and the

DOM. This session covers the advantages, disadvantages, and 
availability 
of each technique. We then show strategies for creating a uniform 
JavaScript graphics library that works in all browsers, and a hybrid 
Ajax approach that performs additional graphics processing on the 
server.

Specific technologies discussed will include the <canvas> tag, Direct 
Animation and Vector Markup Language (VML) in Internet Explorer, 
server-side graphics with the GD library, and Scalable Vector Graphics 
(SVG).



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