This is the last in a series of posts refuting some recurring claims about the death of SVG, In the first post, I gave a brief overview of SVG. In the subsequent posts, I refuted each of the major claims that I have seen for the death of SVG.
Those claims were:
- Death by lack of GUI Widget Claim
- Death by lack of the 3D Graphics Claim
- Death by lack of the Video or Audio Playback Claim
- Death bby lack of the Internet Explorer support Claim
I hope by now you can seem that these recurring myths are based mostly on misunderstanding or misinformation. SVG is a very effective technology, but it is not designed to do everything. Its popularity and usefulness have been growing for almost a decade now. Despite regular doom-sayers proclaiming the death of SVG, it lives on and grows stronger every year.
If you are interested in learning more about SVG, you should check out the following resources:
- Planet SVG from the SVG Interest Group
- The SVG Wiki
- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) at the World Wide Web Consortium site: the definitive reference
- State of the Art: An SVG Primer for Today’s Browsers (It’s long but it contains both simple and amazing examples.)
- KevLinDev: lots of examples and tutorials
- SVG Basics Tutorial
- SVG.org
You could also search the web for SVG, new sites and resources pop up every day.