What Are the Prerequisites? | Fundamentals of SVG Programming: Concepts to Source Code (Graphics Series)

Why Switch to SVG?

Since SVG is a dialect of XML, it's easy to 'internationalize' your SVG code and SVG-based products. There are also ways to hide your SVG code from 'View Source,' thereby enabling you to protect your intellectual property (which is often a concern for content developers). If you already know JavaScript, you can immediately leverage this knowledge in toto within the SVG framework without having to learn another scripting language such as Action Script by Macromedia Flash™, and you can leverage your existing JavaScript code base while making your transition to SVG. Incidentally, if you're interested in Java-based graphics, you can take a look at the author's Java graphics book, Java Graphics Programming Library: Concepts to Source Code (ISBN I-58450-092-1).