The graphviz string (dot_string) is being piped to the dot executable and then the function is returning the XML SVG as a string, and is obviously assigned to the stdout variable in the tuple. Now the tricky part within my views.py. ...

Just in time for Thanksgiving is another SVG Web release. The SVG Web project's tradition is to name SVG Web releases after monsters from D&D just to increase the geek factor, so in that spirit their release name this time is ...

Note that paths to SVG files include an ID. Here, #filename . If you convert your own SVG fonts, you define this value. If you use Font Squirrel's generator, look at the demo CSS to find this value (for Fontin Sans Regular, ...

As a few readers of this site may know, all too many years ago I wrote a book on Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG, back around 2004. The book focused primarily on the Adobe SVG Viewer, at the time the only major implementation of SVG on ...

Brad Neuberg of the Google Developer programs stopped by Yahoo! last week talk about HTML5. Brad has been hard at work on SVG Web lately, but he covered a lot of ground in this talk, including SVG/Canvas rendering, CSS transforms, app-cache, local databases, web workers, and much more. Brad does a fantastic job identifying the scope and practical implications of the changes that are coming along with HTML5 support in modern browsers. And he pulls no punches about which browsers fall into th

One thing that seems to come up from time to time when talking about SVG is the apparent lack of a mechanism to make certain size specific adjustments. Typical use case is icon design, where you want to make sure the outline of the icon ...

I consider myself a Canvas evangelist, an SVG evangelist, and an evangelist for the new CSS Animation work going on. When asked "SVG or Canvas" I've long felt the right answer is: "Yes" :) Canvas is great at pixels, SVG is great at ...