Labels:book | hakham | monitor | plant | reckoner | sky OCR: 4 4 8 SECTION c CHAPTER 8 VECTOR GRAPHICS ON THE WEB Do vector graphics work on the Web? Web browsers were origi- nally designed to support limited number of graphics formats- GIF and JPEG -and these formats were exclusively bitmaps. Plug- -ins and players are currently available for several of the most popular Web-based vector graphics formats. Which vector graphics formats can be used on the Web? graphics format called SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) designed specifi- FIGURE 8-36 cally for the Web (Figure 8-36) Graphics in SVG format are automatically SVG graphics are typically resized when displayed on different screens or when printed. SVG supports used on the Web for maps ads gradients, drop shadows, multiple levels of f transparency, and other effects organizational charts, and flow- ...
