What Environments Can View SVG?

If this technology is so amazing, you'll want to see what it looks like, right? Thankfully, SVG isn't vaporware, and you're able to view SVG documents in a variety of ways. SVG content can currently be viewed in a variety of Web browsers, as well as in some alternative environments.

Browsers

The most common environment (as of publication) in which you will encounter SVG is your Web browser. Some XML browsers, such as X-Smiles (http://www.xsmiles.org/), actually have native support for SVG in the browser, meaning you need not do anything to view SVG files; they will automatically appear in the browser window.

Sadly, that doesn't hold true for just about any other browser out there, much less for any well-known and ...

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