2. The method of claim 1 wherein the reference to the raster image is placed within an <image> tag.
1. A method for interactively viewing raster images using scalable vector graphics (SVG), comprising: receiving an SVG document, the SVG document including a reference to a raster image within the SVG document, the reference indicating a rectangular portion, a display width and height, and an IP address for a server computer; passing the SVG document to an SVG viewer; rendering the SVG document, comprising: requesting from the server computer a first portion of raster image data corresponding to the rectangular portion, display width and display height, the first portion of raster image data being derived from the raster image; receiving the first portion of raster image data from the server computer; displaying the first portion of raster image data; transmitting a user request for a different portion of the raster image data; receiving a modified SVG document, modified according to the different portion requested by the user; passing the modified SVG document to the SVG viewer for re-rendering.