SVG

Draft

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 [...]. 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 12:49, 14 March 2007 (MET)).

See also Flash, a proprietary and "opaque" format.

Application areas

Visualizations

• The biggest market niche is in our opinion visualization.

Examples

• Romain Sauvain made SVG-based links visualization module for this wiki. See the link in the toolbox to your left or read the short Mediawiki SvGViz extension documentation. Admire the beauty of links! Works with Firefox, Opera or IE with an SVG plugin.
• There is also a "heavier" visualization with a Java Applet made by Urs Richle

Links and tools

See SVG links