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January 30, 2004
Review of SVG Essentials
SVG Essentials
J. David Eisenberg
O'Reilly, 2002
A little over a year ago I bought and read SVG Essentials by J. David Eisenberg. At the time, I was moving from dabbling in SVG to beginning a contract which required the use of SVG.
This book provides a good working overview of SVG. I have seen several articles that showed how to produce specific effects or that explored a piece of SVG functionality. I've also read the W3C specifications. This book provides the practical information you need to actually use SVG.
One interesting point about the book is it's lack of spectacular graphics. The author states that this is by intent. Most of the pictures only illustrate one, or a small number, of features at a time. He also states that he doesn't want the pictures to overwhelm the novice SVG user that would be discouraged by not being able to produce beautiful work equal to the art in some books.
If you need a refresher on vector graphics or if you want to explore this new XML application, this book is definitely recommended.
Posted by GWade at January 30, 2004 11:10 PM. Email comments