COAP:COAP-2100/week3-2012
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Week 3
Topics covered
- Using SVG within HTML5
- Crash course on HTML5 (if needed)
- Creating simple static SVG
- SVG in HTML5
- Dynamic SVG (if time, else on week 4)
- Recall of XML principles (well-formed XML)
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 (not everything)
- SVG/SMIL animation tutorial (if time left)
- 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
- (2) HTML Tutorials (if needed)
- HTML and XHTML elements and attributes
- D. Raggett's HTML 4 tutorial (ok, but use the HTML5 document header)
- (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
Monday
- Introduction to HTML (if needed)
- Creating SVG with svg-edit
- Embedding SVG in HTML 5. See Using SVG with HTML5 tutorial
- Download SVG from http://openclipart.org
- Repairing clip art from openclipart.org with Inkscape (export "as SVG")
- Scaling SVG graphics
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>
Wednesday
- Discussion about the mid-term exam (Wed week 5)
- Demo of the Inkscape SVG editor (if it works in the computer room)
- The Eisenberg SVG essentials book (SVG Essentials, wiki version)
- Static SVG continued (parts of the Static SVG tutorial)
- Dynamic SVG (if time left)
Homework 3
- Create an HTML5 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 create a least one simple drawing yourself. For the additional pictures, you are allowed to copy/paste free SVG code, e.g. from openclipart.org or you can draw them yourself.
- Pictures should have an appropriate size
- Small pictures should either float to the left or to the right.
- Submit the file to the worldclass room.
Main resource: Using SVG with HTML5 tutorial
Due: Monday week 5 (before start of class)