About the Book
✅ Master SVG & CSS Fundamentals: Understand the core concepts of Scalable Vector Graphics and Cascading Style Sheets, and their synergistic power in web design.
✅ Control the SVG Canvas: Grasp SVG's coordinate systems, viewports, and achieve responsive graphics using viewBox and preserveAspectRatio.
✅ Draw Basic Shapes: Proficiently create rectangles, circles, ellipses, lines, polylines, and polygons, and apply fundamental styling.
✅ Command SVG Paths: Draw complex, custom shapes using various path commands, including Bézier curves and elliptical arcs.
✅ Add Scalable Text: Implement and style text with text, tspan, textpath elements, controlling font properties and flow.
✅ Style with CSS: Apply CSS selectors, understand specificity, and use common CSS properties to style SVG elements effectively.
✅ Refine Fills & Strokes: Control color, opacity, line caps, joins, miter limits, and create dashed lines with advanced stroke properties.
✅ Apply CSS Transforms: Implement translate, rotate, scale, and skew transformations, understanding transform-origin and matrix transforms.
✅ Explore Advanced Styling: Discover vector-effect for non-scaling strokes, paint-order, and how to use elements.
✅ Overview SVG Animation: Understand the different animation techniques: CSS Transitions, CSS Keyframe Animations, SMIL, and the Web Animations API (WAAPI).
✅ Animate with CSS Transitions: Create simple, interactive animations and state changes using CSS transitions.
✅ Craft CSS Keyframe Animations: Define multi-step animation sequences, controlling timing, repetition, direction, and fill mode.
✅ Understand SMIL (Historical Context): Learn the basics of SVG's built-in declarative animation elements for attributes, transforms, and motion.
✅ Animate with JavaScript: Programmatically manipulate SVG elements via the DOM, using requestAnimationFrame for smooth animations.
✅ Utilize the Web Animations API (WAAPI): Employ WAAPI for unified animation control, including playback, chaining, and event handling.
✅ Create Gradients & Patterns: Design sophisticated fills using linear and radial gradients, and define reusable graphical patterns.
✅ Apply SVG Filters: Use 'filter' elements and various primitives (feGaussianBlur, feColorMatrix, feOffset, etc.) for raster-like visual effects.
✅ Define Visible Regions with Clipping Paths: Control element visibility by using 'clipPath' with shapes and paths.
✅ Implement Transparency with Masks: Achieve intricate transparency effects using 'mask' elements based on graphic luminance or alpha.
✅ Enhance Reusability with Symbols: Define reusable graphic components using 'symbol' and instantiate them with 'use'.
✅ Build Interactive SVG: Make SVG elements responsive to user input using DOM events and JavaScript, and enhance accessibility.
✅ Apply Advanced Interactivity: Implement keyboard navigation, drag-and-drop, zooming, panning, and integrate SVG with JavaScript frameworks.
✅ Ensure Responsive SVG: Employ viewBox, preserveAspectRatio, and CSS to make SVG graphics adapt seamlessly to different screen sizes.
✅ Optimize Animated SVG Performance: Identify bottlenecks and apply techniques to ensure smooth animations, favoring hardware-accelerated properties.
✅ Ensure SVG Accessibility: Implement best practices for SVG accessibility, including titles, descriptions, WAI-ARIA attributes, and keyboard navigation.
✅ Integrate with JS Frameworks: Learn to manage, generate, and animate SVG within modern frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular, leveraging animation libraries.
