Improved page animations on pages with vertical scrolling.Therefore this shouldn’t navigate to the previous/next page, only horizontal swipes should). A vertical swipe will no longer change pages on pages with vertical scrolling (on long pages that won’t all fit on the screen, the user needs to scroll by swiping up/down.A swipe will no longer change page if there is an active text selection (if the user is trying to select text on a touch device, by dragging on the selection markers on the text, it shouldn’t navigate to the next/previous page if the user misses the selection markers with their drag).
Improvements for mobile We’ve made some changes to the way exported documents/websites work on mobile and touch devices, to improve the user experience: Up to 15% improvement in performance for mobile devices in our own tests.Optimized CSS by removing deprecated fall-backs.Several JS files are no longer exported when not required.Other performance improvements In addition to the SVG changes, we’ve made other refinements that will help improve page load speeds for the benefit of your SEO:
And the same applies to groups created by importing graphics from SVG or PDF files - these groups will also now export as SVG by default. Unless you deliberately turn on the above Export group as single image option for the group. New groups export as SVG With this update, new groups you create ( Arrange > Group) when Shapes as SVG is on, will export as SVG There has always been an option for this, but the UI for this is now clearer and simpler, at the bottom of the Utilities > Web Properties > Image tab. Export group as single image Sometimes you may want to force a group of objects to export as a single image, even when you have the Shapes as SVG option on. Mix & Multiply Transparency as SVG Objects with Mix or Multiply transparency are now also exported as SVG. Elliptical Fills as SVG Elliptical fills are now also exported as SVG, in addition to Flat, Linear and Circular fills which were already supported. Floor shadows and Glow shadows will continue to export as images, due to a lack of direct support for these shadow types in SVG. Wall shadow is by far the most commonly used type of shadow. Which means it’s now possible to build graphically rich web documents and websites that have no images to download at all! Wall Shadows as SVG Wall Shadows created with the Shadow Tool will now export as SVG instead of as images. Flat fills, linear graduated fills and circular graduated fills, all now export as SVG, as well as specific cases mentioned below. Given the importance of page loading time to page rank, this is a valuable improvement for your SEO efforts.
Then Xara will automatically use SVG for as many objects as it can when exporting your document for the web. All you need to do is turn on the new Shapes as SVG option at the bottom of the Utilities > Web Properties > Website tab. What’s more, your content also looks sharper as SVG. As a result your website and web documents load faster - with all the usability and SEO benefits that brings - because there are fewer bitmap images to download. Web Improvements Shapes as SVG for Faster Sites Modern web browsers have great SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) support, which means we can now export many more types of graphical object to web using SVG, instead of having to make separate bitmap image files for each one. 18 Text & Document Management 18 Font Menu Improvements. 15 User Interface & User Experience 15 New Look User Interface.