The W3C explicitly recommends SMIL as the standard for animation in SVG.

: SVG content can be animated using the built-in animation elements such as, and.

* SVG animation

* SVG examples Many examples of SVG animation, Filters and Tiling.

Basic animation and timing modules were integrated into Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ) and the SMIL modules formed a basis for Timed-Text.

SMIL is one of two means by which SVG animation can be achieved ( the other being JavaScript ).

Combining SMIL + VoiceXML or SMIL + MusicXML with RSS or Atom could be useful in the creation of an audible pseudo-podcast with embedded hyperlinks, while combining SMIL + SVG with VoiceXML and / or MusicXML would be useful in the creation of an automatically audio-enabled vector graphics animation with embedded hyperlinks.

While SVG is not a user interface language, it includes support for vector / raster graphics, animation, interaction with the DOM and CSS, embedded media, events and scriptability.

* SVG animation

Recent versions are known to support VML / SVG with embedded images, connectors in flow charts, scripting with Javascript, and direct spreadsheet interaction and animation via Calci.

The use of XML has also led to the possibility of combining multiple markup languages into a single profile, like XHTML + SMIL and XHTML + MathML + SVG

The SVG specification is an open standard that has been under development by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) since 1999.

SVG has been in development since 1999 by a group of companies within the W3C after the competing standards Precision Graphics Markup Language ( PGML ) – developed from Adobe's PostScript – and Vector Markup Language ( VML ) – developed from Microsoft's RTF – were submitted to W3C in 1998.

Since 2001, the SVG specification has been updated to version 1. 1 ( current Recommendation ) and 1. 2 ( still a Working Draft ).

When an SVG image has been compressed with the industry standard gzip algorithm, it is referred to as an " SVGZ " image and uses the corresponding filename extension.

* SVG Full 1. 2 has had a W3C Working Draft in process for years, but now will be dropped soon in favor of a SVG 2. 0.

Neither mobile profile includes support for the full DOM, while only SVG Basic has optional support for scripting, but because they are fully compatible subsets of the full standard, most SVG graphics can still be rendered by devices which only support the mobile profiles.

: Since 2008, there has been discussion among professional users of SVG that either gradient meshes or preferably diffusion curves could usefully be added to the SVG specification.

* Opera ( since 8. 0 ) has support for the SVG 1. 1 Tiny specification while Opera 9 includes SVG 1. 1 Basic support and some of SVG 1. 1 Full.

Opera 9. 5 has partial SVG Tiny 1. 2 support.

* Amaya has partial SVG support.

Functionality has been implemented for most of the SVG document structure, interactivity through scripting and styling inline and through CSS.

SVG on the desktop has also become common.

The GNOME project has supported and extensively used SVG icons since 2000.

Adobe Flash Lite has optionally supported SVG Tiny since version 1. 1.

Rim's BlackBerry has built-in support for SVG Tiny 1. 1 since version 5. 0.

Nokia's S60 platform has built-in support for SVG.

Nokia has also led the JSR 226: Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API expert group that defines Java ME API for SVG presentation and manipulation.

Windows Phone has supported SVG since version 7. 5

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, had been critical of Internet Explorer for its failure to support SVG.

the methodology is independent of XHTML, and has been used for the definition of other markup languages as well, such as SVG and MathML.

VML has been largely deprecated in favor of other formats, such as SVG.

It has been adopted to some extent in the areas of technical illustration and professional design, but has largely been superseded by formats such as SVG and DXF.

Fireworks can also open FWPNG / PNG, PSD, AI, EPS, JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF file formats, and save / export to FWPNG / PNG, PSD, AI ( v. 8 ), FXG ( v. 2. 0 ), JPG, GIF, PDF, SWF and some others ; recently, also some support for exporting to SVG has been added ( via a free Export extension ).

Examples include Web accessibility a set of guidelines and two accessible web portals designed for people developing reading skills are peepo. com — try typing a letter with your keyboard for more — and peepo. co. uk with enhanced graphics, unique style controls and improved interactivity ( requires an SVG supported browser ).

Other examples include Web accessibility a set of guidelines and two accessible web portals designed for people developing reading skills are peepo. com & m dash ; try typing a letter with your keyboard for more & m dash ; and peepo. co. UK with enhanced graphics, unique style controls and improved interactivity ( requires an SVG supported browser ).

While the World Wide Web Consortium maintains up-to-date central versions of some of the most important Web standards in the form of recommendations, in practice no software developer has designed a browser which adheres exactly to these standards ; implementation of other standards and protocols, such as SVG and XMLHttpRequest, varies as well.

The difference with the GIF image, is that the SVG image will be parsed within the SGML document, according to the declarations in the DTD, where the GIF image is just referenced as an opaque external object ( which is not parsable with SGML ) via its " data " attribute ( whose value type is an opaque ENTITY ).

Other approaches, such as individual frames served by AJAX, or SVG images may be animated via JavaScript or SMIL.

As XML files, SVG images can be created and edited with any text editor, but it is often more convenient to create them with drawing programs such as Inkscape.

Text can be in any XML namespace suitable to the application, which enhances search ability and accessibility of the SVG graphics.

SVG drawings can be dynamic and interactive.

A rich set of event handlers such as onmouseover and onclick can be assigned to any SVG graphical object.

The SVG 1. 1 specification is modularized in order to allow subsets to be defined as profiles.

SVG Tiny 1. 2 was initially released as a profile and later refactored to be a complete specification, including all needed parts of SVG 1. 1 and SVG 1. 2.

: SVG shapes can be filled and / or outlined ( painted with a color, a gradient, or a pattern ).

: Colors can be applied to all visible SVG elements, either directly or via ' fill ', ' stroke ,' and other properties.

: SVG shapes can be filled or outlined with solid colors as above, or with color gradients or with repeating patterns.

In addition to hyperlinks as mentioned below, any part of an SVG image can be made receptive to user interface events such as changes in focus, mouse clicks, scrolling or zooming the image and other pointer, keyboard and document events.

: All aspects of an SVG document can be accessed and manipulated using scripts in a similar way to HTML.

To overcome this limitation, text can be displayed in an ' SVG font ', where the required glyphs are defined in SVG as a font that is then referenced from the element.