June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
7h 48m
English
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Introduction to SVG
In this chapter we are going use WebObjects to vend an altogether different content from that of Web interfaces. In particular, we are going to use WebObjects to generate images on the fly.
What Is SVG?
It is an open standard published by the W3 Consortium and has an impressive lineup of applications that support it, including Adobe Illustrator 10, Adobe Golive 6, CorelDraw 10, Quark XPress 5. Not to mention a host of Java classes and libraries to generate and process SVG content.
SVG as a format is most often compared with Flash, which is another popular vector format on the Web. However, the most important feature of SVG is that it is based on XML. In other words, the format is in a human-readable form, unlike Flash, which ...