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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition
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Responsive Web Design with HTML5 and CSS3, Second Edition

by Ben Frain
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
312 pages
7h 3m
English
Packt Publishing
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The graphic that is a document

Ordinarily, if you try and view the code of a graphics file in a text editor the resultant text is completely unintelligible.

Where SVG graphics differ is that they are actually described in a markup style language. SVG is written in Extensible Markup Language (XML), a close relative of HTML. Although you may not realize it, XML is actually everywhere on the Internet. Do you use an RSS reader? That's XML right there. XML is the language that wraps up the content of an RSS feed and makes it easily consumable to a variety of tools and services.

So not only can machines read and understand SVG graphics, but we can too.

Let me give you an example. Take a look at this star graphic:

This is an SVG graphic, called Star.svg ...

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