COAP:COAP-2100/week4
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Week 4
Topics covered
- Creating simple static SVG (continued)
- Dynamic SVG (part I, continued on week 5)
Teaching materials, software and reference manuals
- (1) SVG Tutorials
- See SVG for finding online tutorials
- Using SVG with HTML5 tutorial for using SVG (Monday class and homework)
- Static SVG tutorial (grouping constructs)
- SVG/SMIL animation tutorial or SVG Essentials/Animating and Scripting SVG
- SVG Essentials On-line SVG textbook. Wiki version of J. David Eisenberg (2002), SVG Essentials, O'Reilly
- You can find a PDF of an SVG book in the worldclassroom / Documents folder
- (3) SVG-Edit online software
- svg-edit (Online SVG editor)
- SVG-edit 2.5.1 (stable version, in case the above won't work).
- If you are curious about the "about", follow the links on the svg-edit home page
- (4) Free SVG drawing tools you can install on your computer
- Inkscape Powerful, but more difficult drawing tool (export as "pure" SVG before pasting into HTML5)
- DIA, a popular open source diagramming tool can import/export SVG (Win/Mac/Linux). There are also portable app (Windows) and zip versions
- (5) Free SVG clipart
- Open Clip Art Library (openclipart.org)
Classroom activities
- No Monday class
Wednesday
- Discussion about the mid-term exam (Wed week 5)
- Demo of the Inkscape SVG editor (editing the XML)
- The Eisenberg SVG essentials book (SVG Essentials, wiki version)
- Static SVG continued (parts of the Static SVG tutorial)
- Dynamic SVG
Example code that you can copy / paste into an editor
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>HTML5 SVG demo</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>HTML5 SVG Demo</h1>
<p> A nice green circle:</p>
<svg id="circle" height="100" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<circle cx="30" cy="30" r="30" fill="green" />
</svg>
</body>
</html>
Homework 4
- Create an HTML5+SVG page with some interesting contents
- You may copy/paste from the text from some other source under the condition that do not violate any copyright and that you cite the source.
- You may keep the HTML very simple (ie. only use h1 and p tags)
- Add illustrations made with SVG. You must at least create two simple animations. You are allowed to copy/paste free SVG code, e.g. from openclipart.org or you can draw them yourself.
- Submit the file to the worldclass room.
Main resources:
Due: Wednesday week 5 (before start of class)