Wired

New JavaScript Library Brings Vector Graphics to the Masses

The use of Scalable Vector Graphics, better known as SVG, has long been a great way to create dynamic graphics on the web – just feed your ever-changing values into an SVG XML file and you've got an ...
Dark Reading

Beware: Scalable Vector Graphics Files Are A New Ransomware Threat

Creative cyber criminals are taking advantage of Facebook's compatibility with SVG images to infect victims with ransomware. SVG (scalable vector graphics) files are dangerous on social media sites, ...
Bleeping Computer

SVG Image Format Set for Wider Adoption in Malware Distribution

SVG has all the makings of a great malware distribution medium, and crooks are bound to migrate to this new file format, now that Google has moved to ban .js email attachments. SVG is an image file ...
CNET

Google urges Web adoption of vector graphics

Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG, has languished as a graphics format on the Web, but now the stars are aligned for its success, Google argues. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...
Wired

Getting Started with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) have long been the ideal way to create images that need to scale without distorting. For example, SVG is a great format for an icon or logo that needs to be displayed at ...
Linux Journal

Introducing Vector Graphics and Inkscape

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an open W3C standard for describing two-dimensional graphics in a different way than traditional computer images, which are all bitmaps of some kind. A bitmap or ...