

Layers etc not part of SVG format, but added by Inkscape.

XML allows different formats in one document lots of other apps can read, write & represent SVGs now - even browsers now display SVG (IE =>9 only) Link to software - final image is like compiled code SVG is source code

new javascript library to let you make graphics w/javascript. You can set interactive qualities in Inkscape (Shift + Ctrl + O) - eg, behaviour 'onmouseover' etc - try typing: "alert("I am a blue square") into one of the fields Running joke, unable to translate accurately. See Apple Netwon - device that attempted hand-writing recognition when you wrote on it with stylus. false division between image and text - relation to xhtml contempt for images representing text? - Images are 'closed' tho SVG is open (you can even 'view source' in a browser or manipulate w/Javascript) Try opening an SVG file in a text editor, adding tags and opening in inkscape SVG uses tag structure similar to HTML: You can view your image as XML (Shift + Ctrl+X), or open. archipels.be/fishtank - Michael's project using SVGs on a website. Historical 'baggage' is detectable in an SVG file's XML sourcecode: eg, the name Sodipodi is still present in the code even though this project was renamed 'Inkscape' some time ago. Related to SVG animation: CSS animation. See Graham Harwood & Yokokoji (YoHa): 'coal fired computers' at Essay defending collaboration against criticisms of 'design by committee': see Libre Graphics Mag 1.3, "Look at my Camel." We played Exquisite Corpse (like 'Consequences' with images), then tried to do the same with Inkscape Topics: Inkscape, Cadavre Exquis, Digital metaphors for analogue processes
