This book is for web developers and designers looking to add scalable, device-independent animation, images, and visualizations to their projects. Scalable Vector Graphics is an image file format introduced in 1998 by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). For many years, it languished behind poor browser compatibility and an unfriendly API. Over the past few years, it has become a vital part of the modern web development toolkit. SVG offers many important features for the modern web. For example, in a world of multiple device resolutions, it offers a simple path to high-quality image scaling without having to produce multiple resolutions for your image and without having to jump through complicated markup patterns. Also, being built in XML-based markup, it also allows easy access to common JavaScript patterns for creating highly interactive interfaces.

This book will teach you the fundamentals of working with SVG as static images, in CSS, inline as elements in an HTML document, and as a scripted part of animations or visualizations.