This tutorial aims to explain the internals of SVG and is packed with technical details. If you just want to draw beautiful images, you might find more useful resources at Inkscape's documentation page. Another good introduction to SVG is provided by the W3C's SVG Primer. Also check out this advent calendar-themed SVG Tutorial that walks you through coding 25 festive SVGs.

Patterns are arguably one of the more confusing fill types to use in SVG. They're also very powerful, so they're worth talking about and getting at least a fundamental grasp on. Like gradients, the <pattern> element should be put in the <defs> section of your SVG file.

The <animateTransform> SVG element animates a transformation attribute on its target element, thereby allowing animations to control translation, scaling, rotation, and/or skewing.

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The <desc> SVG element provides an accessible, long-text description of any SVG container element or graphics element.

The JavaScript exception "missing } after property list" occurs when there is a mistake in the object initializer syntax somewhere. Might be in fact a missing curly bracket, but could also be a missing comma.

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The <feMorphology> SVG filter primitive is used to erode or dilate the input image. Its usefulness lies especially in fattening or thinning effects.

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