SVG
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is the W3C standard XML-based imaging model that enables Web developers, designers, and users to move beyond the limitations of HTML and create robust visual content and interactivity through a simple declarative programming model.
With this powerful technology, XML developers can create Web applications based on data-driven, interactive, and personalized graphics from real-time data sources such as e-commerce systems and corporate databases. And developers can customize SVG for many different audiences, cultures, and demographics, no matter how the user interacts with the data. Developed by the W3C consortium, this technology offers many benefits:
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Visit the SVG area of the Adobe Web site for in-depth information about the technology, including downloads and tools.
- SVG's XML syntax enables developers to use existing skills and leverage existing XML-based infrastructure and development tools.
- SVG integrates with current Web technologies like HTML, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SMIL, ASP, JSP, and JavaScript, and can be slotted into existing browser-based applications to provide more robust visualization and a desktop-like GUI.
- Graphics created in SVG can be scaled without loss of quality across various platforms and devices.
- SVG applications can dramatically reduce maintenance time.
- Developers and designers can create in parallel, reducing development time and distributing the work more efficiently.
- Because SVG separates design from content, updates are easy.
- SVG technology can reduce server loads and bandwidth usage by enabling only the incremental data to be transmitted between the client and server and by using the processing power of the client platforms to perform graphic rendering.
- Adobe's SVG Viewer, deployed with Adobe® Reader® software to millions of desktops, enables a single SVG rendering and JavaScript interactivity experience within the browser across Windows®, Mac, and Linux® PCs.
- Industry support for SVG allows content to be deployed across non-PC devices including PDAs, mobile phones, and specialty handheld devices.
