Scalable vector graphics

Abstract

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is the open source Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation for two dimensional vector graphics. The combination of SVG and JavaScript is a powerful platform for creating interactive graphics, comparable to Flash and Java. SVG has been overlooked, however, partly because of incomplete browser support. This situation improved significantly in 2006 with the release in of Firefox 1.5 and Opera 9, both with native SVG capability. The first part of this article reviews the current status of SVG implementation and offers several examples with a mathematical flavor. The second part, for developers, explains one of the examples in detail.