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We touched on the idea of Flash-challenging technology when we looked at Canvas in Chapter 9. But perhaps the most serious challenger to Flash in the past decade has been Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an XML format for 2D graphics and animation, which is making yet another mini-comeback. Let’s take a very brief look at the dead-again, less-dead-again technology that is SVG.
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Stevens, L., Owen, R. (2014). The Truth About SVG: The Flash Challenger That Was, Wasn’t, and Now…. In: The Truth About HTML5. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6416-3_11
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