Forum OpenACS Q&A: Check out generating SVG on the fly

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Posted by Henry Minsky on
SVG can do pretty fancy things, especially when combined with
Javascript. You should check out the tutorials on
Adobe's web site. I've been generating small animations and interactive
maps
with SVG dynamically from Tcl, and it works quite well.
SVG is supported as a plugin for internet explorer and netscape.
There's supposedly even a Linux plugin (sigh). In practice,
Internet Explorer is probably your only option to view SVG / Javascript presentations.

SVG is much easier to generate than Flash, in my opinion.
It is just straight XML text. You can compress it for
faster transmission as well (.svgz) using Zip compression.