This session teaches creative Web developers the advantages of innovative SVG features, and show examples of SVG in a development environment.

The session covers:

• General background on SVG: origins, requirements for SVG and goals
• Drawing & Text: basic shapes, paths and text layout
• Visual effects: gradients, patterns, clipping, masking, compositing and filtering
• Animation: declarative animation & DOM animation
• Styling: use of CSS for coloring, applying clipping and filtering
• Integration of SVG in an XML / XSLT workflow
• Looking forward: SVG integration in products, comparison with other vector graphics formats (Flash) and future progress