SVG
Definition
“SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML. SVG 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation and forms the core of the current SVG developments. SVG 1.2 is the specification currently being developed as is available in draft form (comments welcome). The SVG Mobile Profiles: SVG Basic and SVG Tiny are targeted to resource-limited devices and are part of the 3GPP platform for third generation mobile phones. SVG Print is a set of guidelines to produce final-form documents in XML suitible for archiving and printing.” (Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), retrieved 12:44, 14 March 2007 (MET)).
Application areas
Visualizations
- The biggest market niche is in our opinion visualization. E.g.
Romain Sauvain is working on a new links visualization module for this wiki. A first version (that uses Urs' webservice) is here. Admire the beauty of links! Works with Firefox or IE with an SVG plugin.
Tools
Editors
- You can hand code SVG with any XML editor
- [Inkscape
Viewers
- Firefox since version 1.5 includes by default a native SVG, but it does not implement SMIL animation tags. Some other static SVG features are missing too, but DOM/Javascript is implemented.
- Adobe SVG Viewer, works with IE and Firefox. Implements all of SVG 1.0.
- Getting it to work with IE 7 is quite a nightmare. Try the procedure in Utilisateurs d'Internet Explorer 7
- There are other viewers.
On-line tools
Links
Standards
- The official SVG specification
- Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic W3C Recommendation 14 January 2003 (SVG on the road !)
- SMIL animation SVG has incorporated SMIL-type animations (a superset). This means that SMIL tutorials will also be useful to you.
- ECMAScript Language Binding for SVG (just SVG specific stuff, SVGElement has all the properties and methods of dom::Element !)
- sXBL, SVG's XML Binding Language (sXBL) s a mechanism for defining the presentation and interactive behavior of elements described in a namespace other than SVG's. (This will allow definition of high-level tagsets). [9/2004]
General
- W3C Graphics Activity Statement. This shows the place of SVG in the overall W3C strategy.
- W3C Scalable Verctor Graphics (SVG). This is the overview page (includes News and Pointers)
- Picture Perfect xml.com, (2001)
- SVG: A Sure Bet by Paul Prescod, xml.com (July 2003)
- Flash and SVG comparison table (by A. Neumann)
- JSP Technology and SVG
- Why to Avoid Flash, by Devin Bunker
- Flash is Evil by dack (not related to svg but food for thought)