Abstract
This specification defines the features and syntax for Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG), a language for describing two-dimensional vector and
mixed vector/raster graphics in XML.
The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
1.0 specification is still in the Candidate Recommendation phase.
This new draft specification is being published to reflect
minor changes to the specification and editorial updates
resulting from
implementation feedback.
The
SVG Working
Group (Members-only)
considers the specification to be stable and encourages implementation and
comment on the specification during this period. The Candidate
Recommendation review period ends when there exists at least one SVG
implementation which passes each of the Basic Effectivity (BE) tests in the
SVG test suite.
The implementation
status of SVG is already very good, and at this point, most of the test are passed by
one or multiple implementations, but as yet the exit criteria have not been met.
It is anticipated that implementation status will be such that the exit criteria
will be met in approximately one month.
Please send review
comments before the review period ends to
svg-comments@w3.org.
Should this specification prove very difficult or impossible to implement,
the Working Group will return the document to Working Draft status and make
necessary changes. Otherwise, the Working Group anticipates asking the W3C
Director to advance this document to Proposed Recommendation.
This is a W3C Working Draft for review by W3C Members and other interested
parties. It is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted
by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use W3C Working
Drafts as reference material or to cite them as other than "work in
progress". This is work in progress and does not imply endorsement by, or
the consensus of, the W3C Membership.
This document has been produced as part of the
Graphics Activity.
The authors of this document are the SVG WG members. The editor is Jon
Ferraiolo.
A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be
found at http://www.w3.org/TR/.
The following sections have not been written yet, but are expected
to be be present in later versions of this specification:
- Appendix N: Element and attribute index
- Appendix O: Index
- Authors:
- John Bowler, Microsoft Corporation <johnbo@microsoft.com>
- Milt Capsimalis, Autodesk Inc. <milt@autodesk.com>
- Richard Cohn, Adobe Systems Incorporated <cohn@adobe.com>
- David Dodds, Lexica <ddodds@lexica.net>
- Andrew Donoho, IBM <awd@us.ibm.com>
- David Duce, Oxford Brookes University <daduce@brookes.ac.uk>
- Jerry Evans, Sun Microsystems <jerry.evans@Eng.sun.com>
- Jon Ferraiolo, Adobe Systems Incorporated <jferraio@adobe.com>
- Scott Furman, Netscape Communications Corporation <fur@netscape.com>
- Brent Getlin, Macromedia <bgetlin@macromedia.com>
- Peter Graffagnino, Apple <pgraff@apple.com>
- Rick Graham, BitFlash Inc. <rick@bitflash.com>
- Vincent Hardy, Sun Microsystems, <vincent.hardy@sun.com>
- Lofton Henderson, OASIS, <lofton@rockynet.com>
- Alan Hester, Xerox Corporation <Alan.Hester@usa.xerox.com>
- Bob Hopgood, RAL (CCLRC) <frah@inf.rl.ac.uk>
- Dean Jackson, CSIRO <dean.jackson@cmis.csiro.au>
- Christophe Jolif, ILOG <jolif@ilog.fr>
- Kelvin Lawrence, IBM <klawrenc@us.ibm.com>
- Chris Lilley, W3C <chris@w3.org>
- Philip Mansfield, IntraNet Solutions, Inc. <philipm@schemasoft.com>
- Kevin McCluskey, Netscape Communications Corporation <kmcclusk@netscape.com>
- Tuan Nguyen, Microsoft Corporation <tuann@microsoft.com>
- Troy Sandal, Visio Corporation <TroyS@visio.com>
- Peter Santangeli, Macromedia <psantangeli@macromedia.com>
- Haroon Sheikh, Corel Corporation <haroons@corel.ca>
- Gavriel State, Corel Corporation <gavriels@COREL.CA>
- Robert Stevahn, Hewlett-Packard Company <rstevahn@boi.hp.com>
- Timothy Thompson, Kodak <timothy.thompson@kodak.com>
- Shenxue Zhou, Quark <szhou@quark.com>
