Does anyone here know SVG? If so, how did you learn it?
Any books/tutorial pointer will be beneficial. Also I am a programmer, not a designer, so I want to pick up some skills there too.
Does anyone here know SVG? If so, how did you learn it?
Any books/tutorial pointer will be beneficial. Also I am a programmer, not a designer, so I want to pick up some skills there too.
I found SVGbasics to be a good starting point. I second Rich's choice for SVG Essentials.
And for the ultimate details you want to have the SVG specification within reach. As specifications go it's a rather dull read, but it contains a number of examples too.
One method that you might want to try is by direct experimentation. Inkscape is an open source SVG editor that lets you directly view and manipulate the XML tree while editing graphically. So in this way, you can experiment with things and see how they affect the XML that gets generated.
The best reference book I've seen on SVG is SVG Essentials by J. David Eisenberg. I used that book to learn SVG. I also used Firefox to view SVGs and Inkscape to create them.