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 [email protected] (public mailing list of the SVG Working Group -
list archives). To
subscribe send an email to [email protected] with the word
subscribe in the subject line.
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
[email protected].
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 <[email protected]>
- Craig Brown, Canon <[email protected]>
- Milt Capsimalis, Autodesk Inc. <[email protected]>
- Richard Cohn, Adobe Systems Incorporated <[email protected]>
- Lee Cole, Quark <[email protected]>
- Thomas E Deweese, Kodak <[email protected]>
- David Dodds, Lexica <[email protected]>
- Andrew Donoho, IBM <[email protected]>
- David Duce, Oxford Brookes University <[email protected]>
- Jerry Evans, Sun Microsystems <[email protected]>
- Jon Ferraiolo, Adobe Systems Incorporated <[email protected]>
- Jun Fujisawa, Canon <[email protected]>
- Scott Furman, Netscape Communications Corporation <[email protected]>
- Brent Getlin, Macromedia <[email protected]>
- Peter Graffagnino, Apple <[email protected]>
- Rick Graham, BitFlash Inc. <[email protected]>
- Vincent Hardy, Sun Microsystems, <[email protected]>
- Lofton Henderson, OASIS, <[email protected]>
- Jan Christian Herlitz , Excosoft, <[email protected]>
- Alan Hester, Xerox Corporation <[email protected]>
- Bob Hopgood, RAL (CCLRC) <[email protected]>
- Dean Jackson, CSIRO <[email protected]>
- Christophe Jolif, ILOG <[email protected]>
- Kelvin Lawrence, IBM <[email protected]>
- H�kon Lie, Opera <[email protected] >
- Chris Lilley, W3C <[email protected]>
- Philip Mansfield, IntraNet Solutions, Inc. <[email protected]>
- Kevin McCluskey, Netscape Communications Corporation <[email protected]>
- Tuan Nguyen, Microsoft Corporation <[email protected]>
- Troy Sandal, Visio Corporation <[email protected]>
- Peter Santangeli, Macromedia <[email protected]>
- Haroon Sheikh, Corel Corporation <[email protected]>
- Gavriel State, Corel Corporation <[email protected]>
- Robert Stevahn, Hewlett-Packard Company <[email protected]>
- Timothy Thompson, Kodak <[email protected]>
- Rick Yardumian, Canon <[email protected]>
- Shenxue Zhou, Quark <[email protected]>
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 [email protected] and [email protected] 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.
