Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable Vector Graphics are the future of graphics on the Web!
If you have created a Web site, you will have realized the importance of graphics in helping you create the look and feel of the site. Until now, you have had a fairly limited choice of graphics formats to use. In Chapter 5, "Advanced Graphics," you read a little about Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) and Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) formats. In addition to those, you probably have seen sites that use Macromedia Flash, a proprietary vector graphics format stored as binary data.
GIFs and JPEGs hardly produce high-quality images, but they are reasonably adequate for small static images. Both GIFs and JPEGs are bitmap images; that is, they are essentially ...
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