October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
842 pages
19h 14m
English
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Preface
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG to its friends) has many applications. It is used by graphic designers and by technical drafters. But this book is specifically about its use in web design and development.
Using SVG with CSS3 and HTML5 is, essentially, using SVG on the web. But more than that, it’s about using SVG in complex web applications. This is SVG not only as illustrations, but as graphical documents that can be integrated in HTML web pages, and styled with custom CSS. Many chapters will be useful to designers creating images for the web, but the focus is on developers who are adapting designs to add data-based graphics, dynamic styles, interaction, or animation.
A Winding Path
This book traces its origins to 2011, when Kurt started work on a book called HTML5 Graphics with SVG and CSS3. At the time, HTML5 and CSS3 were brand new, and SVG was just starting to get decent support in web browsers.
But life, as it often does, got in the way. The book took much longer than planned to complete. And time introduced its own complications.
When Kurt handed off the manuscript to Amelia in late 2014, the state of graphics on the web had changed considerably since when he’d started it. HTML had acquired competely new graphics formats (the Canvas2D API and WebGL), which were completely separate from SVG and CSS. And CSS3 was becoming a bigger and bigger topic every year, quickly outgrowing the one chapter planned for it.
So the decision was made to focus on SVG. However, this ...
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