SVG Graphics - Part 4

What is SVG?

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SVG Graphics is a new standard for graphic use on the Internet that the W3C organisation has been working on for some time. The first public draft was published in February 1999. SVG has been described as being a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML - it is an integrated graphic of animation, text and images and is described in XML. SVG provides for three types of graphical objects, the vector graphic shapes, images and text. SVG utilises the full XML Document Object Model (DOM). The XML DOM allows searchability and accessibility to the graphics, and event handlers such as onClick and OnMouseOver apply. SVG has arrived, and looks to make the use of Scaled Vector Graphics on web-sites more widely used than at present. Ken Rayner