{"id":320,"date":"2009-07-26T01:38:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T00:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2009-08-04T14:25:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T13:25:29","slug":"bye-bye-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/2009\/07\/26\/bye-bye-flash\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After doing some research about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scalable_Vector_Graphics\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>SVG <\/strong><\/a>in combination with the Internet Explorer I found out that Microsoft has their vector graphics format (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vector_Markup_Language\"><strong>VML<\/strong><\/a>) which got rejected by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/NOTE-VML\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>W3C <\/strong><\/a>10 years ago. VML is supported from IE5.5+ and is likely the reason why Microsoft isn&#8217;t implementing SVG like all the other big browsers.<\/p>\n<p>I did some tests and realized, that\u00a0 it isn&#8217;t that much different compared with svg, at least for the features I need from a vector based graphics format. Because VML is based on a HTML\/XML syntax it&#8217;s possible to modify it with Javascript (like I do with the infolayer switch on the maps to switch between: sovereignty, kills, jumps, etc.<\/p>\n<p>After some hours of work, I finally replaced the Flash maps (which were only a workaround for IE users) with new maps based on VML (for IE Only).\u00a0 I would be happy if the minority of IE Users can check if everything is working as intended. Firefox\/Safari\/Opera\/Chrome user shouldn&#8217;t be affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After doing some research about SVG in combination with the Internet Explorer I found out that Microsoft has their vector graphics format (VML) which got rejected by W3C 10 years ago. VML is supported from IE5.5+ and is likely the reason why Microsoft isn&#8217;t implementing SVG like all the other big browsers. I did some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evemaps.dotlan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}