A brief History in SVG

SVG was developed by W3C SVG Working Group in the year 1998. Chris Lilley was the former chairman of that group. SVG 1.0 became was the first version of SVG and it became W3C Recommended in the year 2001 on 4th of September. Another version of SVG which was the SVG 1.1 became the W3C Recommendation in the year 2003 on the 14th of January. Mobile SVG Profiles which were the SVG Tiny and the SVG Basic that came across after its version 1.1 and it became the W3C Recommendation in the year 2003 on the same date as the SVG 1.1. SVY Tiny 1.2 and SVG 1.1 Second Edition became the W3C Recommendation in the date 22nd December 2008 and 16th August 2011 respectively.

SVG was furious technology introduced in late 1998 and which got very eagerly and popularly familiar to new developers that helped them with many aspect of web development, as SVG was used to replace the high resolution large images from the web which made websites more fast and accurate in design.

What is SVG?

SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and it is an XML-based vector image format which is wdely used over web platforms these days.
SVG is two-dimensional graphics providing support for animation and also for interactivity. SVG was initially released in 2001 on 4th of September but it got more highlighted by 2003 when it came with its new version 1.1 and SVG Tiny. SVG was originally developed by W3C and it is an open standard free to use and consume. Every popular browsers in globe like Chrome, Safari and Mozilla contains at least some degree of SVG rendering support.

XSLT Browser compatibility

All the latest version of browsers like  Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and all browsers supports SVG features and also SVG functionality are supported by internet explorer 9.0.

 Features of SVG:

Paths: SVG path  has compact coding and in all kind of cases the coordinates which are absolute following capital letter commands are used after the lower-case letters.   

Basic Shapes: The rectangles in SVG are the standard elements.

Text: The Unicode character which is included in the SVG file has the expression as a XML character data.

Painting: This shapes can be filled or outlined in SVG.

Color: All the elements can be applied with the color in SVG.

Gradients and patterns: The shapes can be filled with the patterns which can be repeating as well in SVG.

Clipping, masking and composting: Graphic elements can be outlined to define the regions which can be painted in SVG.

Filter effects: It can apply filter effects to the elements. 

Interactivity: The SVG images have the feature to interact with users in different possible ways.

Linking: The images can contain hyperlinks which will lead to other documents.

Scripting: Scripts can be used for accessing SVG documents.

Animation: Built-in animation can be used to animate the contents.  

Fonts: Text can use external font files.

Metadata: The metadata of content is provided to the authors.