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SVG became a W3C recommendation in September 2001. SVG was developed in a long process after Macromedia and Microsoft introduced VML whereas Adobe and Sun Microsystems submitted a competing format known as PGML . SVG is natively supported in the Amaya web browser. In other ones, a plugin, like Adobe SVG Viewer or Corel SVG Viewer, is needed to see SVG images, but they can be displayed by external editors and viewers. A special version of MozillaMozilla (a. the Mozilla Suite or the Mozilla Application Suite and codenamed SeaMonkey is a free, cross-platform Internet software suite, whose components include a web browser, an email client, an HTML editor and an IRC client. Its development was initia, called "Croczilla", now supports parts of the W3C SVG Standard, but much is still unsupported; the eventual goal is that SVG can be displayed without any need for plug-ins. The KDEKDE K D esktop E nvironment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltech's Qt toolkit. It runs on most Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux, BSD and Solaris. There are also ports to Mac OS X using its X11 layer and Mic project's KonquerorIn computing, Konqueror is part of the K Desktop Environment (KDE), primarily developed for the Linux platform, but also available for some other platforms (including BSD and, recently, Microsoft Windows, although Windows support is very limited). It func web browser also has a fairly complete SVG implementation called ksvg, and that support will likely filter down to Apple ComputerApple Computer, Inc. is a Silicon Valley company based in Cupertino, California, whose main business is computer technologies. Best known for its range of Macintosh computers and, more recently, its iPod personal audio ( MP3 and otherwise) player and iTun's SafariSafari is a web browser developed by Apple Computer, Inc. for its Mac OS X operating system. It is the standard browser for Mac OS X versions 10. 3 (Panther) and later. Developer: Apple Computer License: Proprietary (no charge) Operating system: Mac OS X web browser in the future. Java programs can make use of the Batik SVG Toolkit to render, generate, and manipulate SVG graphics.

From the W3C Overview of SVG:

SVG allows three types of graphic objects:

1. vector graphic shapegeometric shape. In geometry, two sets of points are of the same shape precisely if one can be transformed to another by dilating (i. multiplying all distances by the same factor) and then, if necessary, rotating and translating. Dilation changes the sizes (e.g. paths consisting of straight lineA line or straight line is, roughly speaking, an (infinitely) thin, (infinitely) long, straight geometrical object, i. a curve that is long and straight. Given two points, in Euclidean geometry, one can always find exactly one line that passes through thes and curveThis article is about the term used in mathematics. There is also a magazine called Curve. Metric geometry Geometry Topology General topology In mathematics, the concept of a curve tries to capture our intuitive idea of a geometrical one-dimensional and cs, and areas bounded by them)
2. raster graphics images / digital images
3. text

Graphical objects can be grouped, styled, transformed and composited into previously rendered objects. Text can be in any XML namespace suitable to the application, which enhances searchability and accessibility of the SVG graphics. The feature set includes nested transformations, clipping paths , alpha masks , filter effect s, template object s and extensibility .

SVG drawings can be dynamic and interactive. The Document Object Model (DOM) for SVG, which includes the full XML DOM, allows straightforward and efficient vector graphics animation via ECMAScript or SMIL. A rich set of event handlers such as onmouseover and onclick can be assigned to any SVG graphical object. Because of its compatibility and leveraging of other Web standards, features like scripting can be done on SVG elements and other XML elements from different namespaces simultaneously within the same web page.

SVG rivals Macromedia Flash in terms of potential and power, and is an open standard, unlike Flash; on the other hand, the Flash plugin is much more wide-spread than its SVG counterparts.