title: iPython Notebook svg Figures by Default
body: <p>I just started using ipython, and I'm creating figures such as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>fig, axes = plt.subplots()
  xs = range(0,100)
  axes.plot(xs, [x*x for x in xs], 'r')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I know that the figures can be rendered as svgs, see <a href="http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/github.com/ipython/ipython-in-depth/raw/master/notebooks/Custom%20Display%20Logic.ipynb" rel="noreferrer">here</a>. Unfortunately, the figures are always rendered as a rasterized image. The rasterized images become very ugly when I'm using the notebook's zoom feature. Is there a way to change this behavior, such that figures are displayed as svg by default?</p>