SVG for Web Developers - Softcover

Pearlman, Ellen; House, Lorien

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131004999 ISBN 13: 9780131004993

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. This book describes the advantages of SVG, how to create SVG, SVG animation, assigning styles, scripting, browser differences, rendering, and more.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

• Smoothly manage resizable, interactive, visual Web content with SVG―Scalable Vector Graphics
• Learn SVG programming quickly and effectively, using classroom-proven techniques
• Extend your XML and Web development skills with this exciting, dynamic new technology

The perfect introduction to serious SVG programming.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a powerful, XML-based language for describing two-dimensional graphics. Web developers will find many compelling features in SVG, including low-bandwidth images that scale without loss of resolution; customizable, dynamic, data-driven content; animation; interactivity via languages such as JavaScript, Java, and Visual Basic; and more. As a text-based format, SVG files can be understood by humans, edited with text editors, and even indexed online by search engines.

The major Web browsers promise native SVG support in the near future, so now's the time to catch up with this emerging technology. Developing SVG-based Web Applications, by Web development authority Ellen Pearlman and graphic artist/Web designer Lorien House, teaches you to produce top-notch content without losing you in extraneous details. Coverage includes the effective use of color, gradients, and other effects, and how to tie it all together with CSS. You'll also learn how to add dynamic elements to your site, including animation and interactivity, as well as how to use SVG effectively with drawing, database, and other software. Complete with plenty of practical, classroom-tested examples to work through, you'll find Developing SVG-based Web Applications both approachable and informative.

You'll learn to:

• Design attractive, professional-grade Web sites using SVG
• Employ dynamic images and data-driven content for truly impressive presentations
• Harness a new Web standard that promises dynamic levels of interactivity

Synopsis:

Developing SVG-based Web Applications is the get-up-to-speed-quickly guide to SVG - Scalable Vector Graphics - for the experienced Web developer. In this book, Ellen Pearlman - Web development teaching guru for Columbia University - shows readers how to use XML and SVG to create Web applications and Web pages that scale images and graphics perfectly on the client-side. Pearlman shows readers how to take advantage of the XML framework of SVG to render graphics from raw database data (using Javascript or other scripting languages) which can then dynamically update. Examples also show readers how SVG graphics can be animated and interactive, scripted to allow the user to change colors and fonts, and can be styled with CSS or XSL stylesheets. About SVG: Most web graphics today (with the exception of Flash movies and images) are bitmaps which don't scale well, render differently on different client browsers, and are relatively large in bandwidth.

SVG, as a vector based program, scales to different sizes without a corresponding loss of resolution, can use a "color profile" to render colors more accurately between design and ultimate client use regardless of browser and monitor differences (even rendering accurately to devices such as PDAs and cell phones), and are usually smaller in bandwidth. SVG thus solves some issues web artists and graphic designers have been struggling with since the first Mosaic Web browser.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0131004999
• ISBN 13: 9780131004993
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464