From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" ( 1999-07-23) A language for describing drawings in terms of the shapes that compose them, so that these can be rendered as well as possible. The SVG home page
SMIL and SVG are multimedia and graphics-related standards; the latter is well-supported by Adobe and has advantages over the Macromedia Flash format because it is an XML language. Using SVG animation in combination with the DOM has results which are equivalent to Flash, but with a result that is accessible and better semantically structured.
Scaleable Vector Graphics. a language for vector graphics coded in XML. XML documents can have these graphics placed directly into the document, with many advantages. SVG produces graphics that are smaller, transmit more quickly, are scaleable without loss of resolution, can have searchable text labels, and allow links to part of an image. It is being developed by the W3C.
Scalable Vector Graphics.
Scalable Vector Graphic, a graphic file format written in XML for images that scale smoothly to different sizes. See the section "SVG images" for more information.
A definition for vector graphics using XML for document structure and CSS for styling. Using this format graphics can be generated on a computer at the time they are viewed.