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SVG Specifications:
W3C SVG Homepage (Links to Specs, Implementations, News, etc.)
SVG 1.1 Specification (W3C Recommendation)
SVG 1.2 Specification (W3C Working Draft)

Useful Websites:
W3C SVG Tutorial (An introduction to SVG)
Adobe’s SVG Zone (Download SVG Browser Plug-In, SVG examples and tutorial)
SunMicrosystem’s Introduction to SVG ( SVG overview and code examples)
Carto.net (SVG papers and examples of SVG cartographic applications)
SVG Developer Mailinglist/Discussion Forum (+3000 members; +1000 messages/month)

SVG Frequently Asked Questions:
http://www.adobe.com/svg/indepth/faq.html
http://www.svgfaq.com

SVG Plug-Ins:
Adobe SVG Viewer (most popular SVG browser plug-in)
Corel SVG Viewer (an open standards-compliant SVG viewer browser plug-in for desktop and tablet PCs)
Apache Batik (An open-source SVG toolkit in 100 % Java)

SVG Browsers:
Mozilla SVG (official Mozilla SVG project site; for built-in (aka native) SVG support in Mozilla)
Croczilla (ready-to-run Mozilla builds/executables with built-in SVG support)
W3C Amaya (open-source browser with built-in SVG viewer and editor for Unix, Windows, & Mac OS X)
X-Smiles (open-source XML browser in Java includes support for SVG, XForms, XSL-FO, XHTML etc.)

Recommended SVG Books:

SVG Essentials by J. David Eisenberg, 364 pages, O'Reilly; ISBN: 0596002238; (February 2002)

 

Teach Yourself SVG in 24 Hours by Micah Laaker, 456 pages; Sams; ISBN: 0672322900; (February 2002)

SVG Programming: The Graphical Web by Kurt Cagle, 624 pages, APress; ISBN: 1590590198; (July 2002)

SVG Unleashed by Chris Lilley, Daniel J. Ayers, Randy George, ch Wenz, Andrew H. Watt; 1152 pages; Sams; ISBN: 0672324296; September 2002

 


 

About the Tutorial

 

SVG Overview

 

SVG Concepts

 

Basic Drawing

 

Painting & Effects

 

Dynamic SVG