Summary

In this hour, you developed a good foundation in the basic shapes and components that constitute the SVG markup language. Although you explored only the most basic of SVG's abilities, you've been introduced to the rudiments that will enable you to expand into advanced capabilities, such as transformations, links (like image mapping), clipping, and masking. This can serve two audiences: those with modest aspirations, who will be happy for the ability to create simple graphics with a text file, and those who want a glimpse at SVG's underpinnings before embarking on outputting SVG files from a commercial drawing application. Regardless of which camp you fall into, you're hopefully leaving this hour with a newfound appreciation for how XML is impacting the look and feel of the Web, not to mention your own web pages.