I’m sure you may have heard webmasters and designers talk time and again about SVG, this has likely left you wondering just exactly what is SVG anyways?

What is SVG? Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a new graphics file format and Web development language based on XML. SVG enables Web developers and designers to create dynamically generated, high-quality graphics from real-time data with precise structural and visual control.

With this powerful new technology, SVG developers can create a new generation of Web applications based on data-driven, interactive, and personalized graphics.

Ref: http://www.adobe.com/svg/overview/svg.html

Why use SVG? The SVG format is emerging through the cooperative efforts of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and its members. Adobe has taken a leadership role in the SVG specification and is working to ensure that its world-class authoring tools, beginning with Adobe® Illustrator® and Adobe GoLive®, are SVG compatible.

Use existing skills

To Web developers, SVG will look and feel very familiar, thanks to its roots in XML. SVG is text based; therefore, coding techniques can be learned by leveraging the work (or code) of others. This drastically reduces the overall learning curve.

The JavaScript language and Document Object Model (DOM) will be very familiar to people who use DHTML. Developers who use JSP, PHP, and ASP for HTML or text content today will now be able to create graphics in much the same way.

Adobe tools support

Adobe is committed to supporting SVG in its products ? so why not use the tools that you know and love to generate SVG? Adobe Illustrator generates SVG graphics. Even rollovers and interactive menus are easily created through Illustrator’s Interactivity palette.

Adobe GoLive supports the placement of SVG files, creation of alternate pages, and editing of SVG source code.

Compatibility

SVG is text based and works seamlessly with current Web technologies like HTML, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SMIL, ASP, JSP, and JavaScript.

Quality

Graphics created in SVG can be scaled without loss of quality across various platforms and devices. SVG can be used on the Web, in print and even on portable devices while retaining full quality.

Ref: http://www.adobe.com/svg/overview/whyuse.html

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Written by MissDanni
MissDanni is a jill of all trades, from web design to web promotion and everything in between, you might just say web everything. Working in the web industry since 2000 she continues to learn new things everyday. "Nothing is impossible if you are willing to take the time to learn and make mistakes."

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