APPENDIX B

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Styling SVG

image Note   Too many modern developers are overlooking the power of vector graphics both for image generation and as a display solution.

Introduction to the SVG Format

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML format for defining vector-based graphics. Like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, SVG is one of the many projects of the W3C. It’s not a new project either—it’s been underway since 1999.

SVG has had a difficult time gaining traction though, and I think there are a few different reasons for that. One reason is that vector graphics ...

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