You've learned quite a bit in this book so far about SVG. You've spent a lot of time looking at the details of the SVG specification and the different ways in which SVG can interact with CSS and HTML. Hopefully, it's been as interesting for you as it is for me.
As interesting as it has all been, it's this chapter where we'll put all the tools together to really unlock the power of SVG. Adding JavaScript to the mix opens up a huge number of new possibilities.
Granted, there are many web developers and designers who will never do animation, dynamic visualizations, or other interactive work with SVG. For them, getting a full understanding of the way that SVG itself works as markup and how it fits in with other static web technologies is incredibly valuable. This is especially true of the intersection between SVG and CSS...
