Sams Teach Yourself SVG in 24 Hours

Hour 21. Using Adobe Illustrator to Create Artwork

As with HTML and other technologies, the layperson couldn't care less about the SVG code needed to generate graphics. In fact, the more removed they can be from the actual code, the better. Unfortunately, the bulk of WYSIWYG HTML editors have ruined a good thing; the code these editors generate often requires more work to fix than it would have taken to hand-code in the first place.

In the last hour, you learned how the visual aspects of SVG creation could be separated from the more technical aspects by allowing designers to develop the artwork while the engineering team developed the interactive prototype. The integration of these two separate tracks requires some effort, though, and this hour ...