SVG Resources At a Glance

This list summarizes SVG and vector graphics resources mentioned throughout the article and adds a number of others not specifically discussed.

• W3C Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) home page - major resource
• W3C Graphics Activity page - great concepts discussion on the need for vector graphics by Chris Lilley, Graphics Activity leader and chair of the SVG Working Group.
• Current SVG Working Draft (link should be valid for eventual SVG Recommendation as well)
• SVG DTD - normative reference
• Terminology section of the SVG Working Draft
• Testimonials by Adobe, Apple, Corel, IBM, Inso, Macromedia, Microsoft, Netscape, Quark, Sun, and Visio - indicating vendor support of the first SVG Working Draft
• Adobe's SVG home page (watch for a SVG browser plug-in this fall)
• Yahoo's SVG section - not much there yet, but stay tuned...
• IBM SVGView
• CSIRO SVG Viewer
• Gill (Gnome Illustration application)
• BlackDirt Software's viewer
• Get Ready for the Awesome Power of SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics - by Kas Thomas (WebDeveloper.com)
• SVG - What's in it for us? - by Janus Boye
• PNG, SVG, and JPEG 2000 - New Image Format Standards - by Derrick Story (SVG section by Janus Boye) for WebReview
• WDVL's coverage of SVG from the May 1999 WWW8 conference
• Vector Graphics - Image Format of the Gods? by Jeffrey Veen (webmonkey)
• Microsoft's Vector Markup Language (VML) - examples require Internet Explorer 5.0

Size Does Matter
Doing It With SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), Part 1