Programmer Musings

SVG Lives: the Summary

This is the last in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. In the subsequent posts, I refuted each of the major claims that I have seen for the death of SVG.

Those claims were:

1. Death by lack of GUI Widget Claim
2. Death by lack of the 3D Graphics Claim
3. Death by lack of the Video or Audio Playback Claim
4. Death bby lack of the Internet Explorer support Claim

I hope by now you can seem that these recurring myths are based mostly on misunderstanding or misinformation. SVG is a very effective technology, but it is not designed to do everything. Its popularity and usefulness have been growing for almost a decade now. Despite regular doom-sayers proclaiming the death of SVG, it lives on and grows stronger every year.

If you are interested in learning more about SVG, you should check out the following resources:

• Planet SVG from the SVG Interest Group
• The SVG Wiki
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) at the World Wide Web Consortium site: the definitive reference
• State of the Art: An SVG Primer for Today's Browsers (It's long but it contains both simple and amazing examples.)
• KevLinDev: lots of examples and tutorials
• SVG Basics Tutorial
• SVG.org

You could also search the web for SVG, new sites and resources pop up every day.