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.
This section describes the status of this document at the time of its
publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest status of
this document series is maintained at the W3C.
This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and other interested parties and
has been endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation.
It is a stable document and may be used as reference material or
cited as a normative reference from another document.
W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention to the specification and
to promote its widespread deployment. This enhances the functionality and interoperability of the Web.
This document has been produced by the W3C
SVG Working Group as part of the activity of the
Graphics Activity within the
W3C Document Formats Domain. The goals of the W3C
SVG 1.0 Working Group are discussed in the
W3C SVG WG Charter
(11 November 2000 - members only). The W3C SVG Working Group has maintained a public Web
page http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ which
contains further background information.
The SVG Working Group believes that all features in the SVG 1.0 Recommendation
are implementable due to substantial implementation experience with generators, viewers and
transcoders based on the SVG specification, the amount of SVG content that has been developed to date,
and interoperability results against the
SVG conformance test suite.
A report on
implementation status
was made at the end of the Candidate
Recommendation review period.
The implementation results are publicly released and are intended solely to be used
as proof of SVG 1.0 implementability. It is only a snap shot of the actual implementation
behaviors at one moment of time, as these implementations may not be immediately available to the public.
The interoperability data is not intended to be used for assessing or grading the performance of any individual implementation.
It is intended that this report will be updated from time
to time by the follow-on activity that oversees the SVG Recommendation.
There are patent disclosures and license commitments associated with the
SVG 1.0 specification. These may be found on the SVG 1.0 Patent Statements in
conformance with W3C
policy.
This version of this document incorporates some editorial changes from earlier versions.
A list of changes
since the
Proposed Recommendation specification of 19 July, 2001 is available.
Public discussion of issues related to vector graphics on the Web and
SVG in particular takes place on
the www-svg@w3.org (public mailing list of the SVG Working Group -
list archives). To
subscribe send an email to www-svg-request@w3.org with the word
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The authors of this document are the SVG Working Group members (see author list). The editor is Jon
Ferraiolo.
The W3C staff contact for work on SVG is Dean Jackson.
Please report errors in this document to
www-svg@w3.org.
The list of known errors in this specification is available at http://www.w3.org/2001/09/REC-SVG-20010904-errata.
A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR.
Available languages
The English version of this specification is the only normative version.
However, for translations in other languages see http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/svg-updates/translations.html.
The authors of the SVG 1.0 specification are the people who participated in the SVG 1.0 Working Group as members or alternates.
- Authors:
- John Bowler, Microsoft Corporation <johnbo@microsoft.com>
- Craig Brown, Canon <cmb@research.canon.com.au>
- Milt Capsimalis, Autodesk Inc. <milt@autodesk.com>
- Richard Cohn, Adobe Systems Incorporated <richard@covero.com>
- Lee Cole, Quark <lcole@quark.com>
- Thomas E Deweese, Kodak <thomas.deweese@kodak.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>
- Jun Fujisawa, Canon <fujisawa.jun@canon.co.jp>
- 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>
- Jan Christian Herlitz , Excosoft, <J-C.Herlitz@excosoft.se>
- Alan Hester, Xerox Corporation <Alan.Hester@usa.xerox.com>
- Bob Hopgood, RAL (CCLRC) <frah@inf.rl.ac.uk>
- Dean Jackson, CSIRO <dean@w3.org>
- Christophe Jolif, ILOG <jolif@ilog.fr>
- Kelvin Lawrence, IBM <klawrenc@us.ibm.com>
- Håkon Lie, Opera <howcome@operasoftware.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>
- Rick Yardumian, Canon <richard.yardumian@cis.canon.com>
- Shenxue Zhou, Quark <szhou@quark.com>
Acknowledgments
The SVG Working Group would like to acknowledge the great many people outside
of the SVG 1.0 Working Group who helped with the process of developing the
SVG 1.0 specification. These people are too numerous to list individually.
They include but are not limited to the early implementers of the SVG 1.0 language
(including viewers, authoring tools, and server-side transcoders),
developers of SVG content,
people who have contributed on the www-svg@w3.org and svg-developers@yahoogroups.com email lists,
other Working Groups at the W3C,
and the W3C team.
SVG 1.0 was truly a cooperative effort between the SVG Working Group,
the rest of the W3C,
and the public
and benefited greatly from the pioneering work of early implementers and content developers,
feedback from the public,
and help from the W3C team.
