Another GroovyMag edition containing musings by yours truly has hit the streets.
The article is entitled “GrIMMiS—the Groovy Internet Mood Meter in SVG” and is a whimiscal look at using Scalable Vector Graphics with Grails and AJAX.
But wait! There’s more!
I have deployed GrIMMiS as a Stax Cloud Application (on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud), so you can play with it (it’s not particularly impressive, though…it only does one thing…). Here you go:
How is the Internet feeling today? How are you feeling today?
You’ll need a browser that has good SVG support. I use Opera 10 and Firefox 3.5.
(I believe that the version of prototype currently shipped with Grails doesn’t like Safari and Chrome…so aficionados of those browsers are currently out of luck.)
I’m not particularly a Microsoft basher, but when it comes to SVG, Microsoft should be thoroughly ashamed of Internet Explorer.
