Other Resources

What's Up at the W3C

Visit the World Wide Web Consortium, your resource for the latest news and technical information about SVG specification development.

Get involved with SVG

Check out what's going on at SVG.org, a community site bringing SVG users, developers and enthusiasts together.

SVG discussion groups/bulletin boards

• Yahoo! groups - SVG developers
• W3C Mail Archive.A mailing list focusing on technical discussion related to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and its specifications.

SVG Viewers:

• Adobe SVG Viewer
• Apache

SVG and related W3C technical specifications

• SVG Specification
• SVG news
• XML Spec
• XML home page

General or introductory articles:

These are introductory technical and strategic high-level articles. The introductory articles require no previous knowledge of SVG.

• An introduction to Scalable Vector Graphics (XML.com)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (WebTechniques)
• Cool graphics in XML (Network World Fusion)
• XML worth a thousand pics (Network World Fusion)
• Ready for animation (Network World Fusion)
• Wrapping up SVG (Network World Fusion)

These strategic, high-level articles are targeted to toward Web designers, CIOs, or managers.

• Extensible graphics with SVG (oreillynet.com)
• A family affair: XML-based rendering languages (XML.com)

Technical articles

These in-depth technical articles require the ability to read source code and technical interfaces.

• Creating SVG with Perl (XML.com)
• Integration by parts: XSLT, XLink & SVG (XML.com)
• SVG: Putting XML in the picture (Graphic Communications Association)
• Zvon SVG On-Line Reference Manual (zvon.org)

Articles, tutorials, and links in other languages

• Deutsche Links (deutsche; gis-news.de)
• Le langage SVG, un cours (euroclid.fr; francais)

SVG Open Conference

• www.svgopen.org