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Painting the Web
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Painting the Web

by Shelley Powers
May 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
656 pages
17h 41m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Vector graphics are dynamic in nature, which means they exist as text, instructions, and object definitions until an appropriate application interprets the instructions and objects and generates a viewable graphic. In the case of the markup, the graphics are defined via XML rather than through some programmed entity, though the end result is the same—pretty pictures.

The release of the first XML specification in 1998 spurred interest in its use to define vector graphics. Only problem was, different groups had different ideas of what would make the "perfect" vector graphics markup language.

Playing Rubik's Cube at the Media Machines site using the Flux plug-in in Firefox

Figure 6-4. Playing Rubik's Cube at the Media Machines site using the Flux plug-in in Firefox

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