SVG 1.1 Becomes W3C Proposed Recomendation

openbear writes "From the w3c web site... W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG to Proposed Recommendations. Comments are welcome through 20 December. SVG delivers vector graphics, text, and images to the Web in XML. SVG 1.1 separates the SVG language into reusable building blocks. Mobile SVG re-combines them into two profiles optimized for cellphones and pocket computers."

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See also XForms

[leighklotz]

See also W3C XForms, which has just become a Candidate Recommendation (one step before PR). XForms updates HTML forms to be XML-based, and plays well with other standards, adding forms to SVG and other XML applications. There are already about a dozen XForms implementations, ranging from those for hand-held devices to standalone clients and popular browser plug-ins. (And a Bugzilla entry for Mozilla that is entertaining reading, though a link from Slashdot won't work anyway.)

Disclaimer: I am one of the editors of the XForms spec.

Re:Awesome

[bluFox]

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is XML specification for creating Vector graphics (It can be embeded in html pages)

SVG can be used like flash , and you can use javascript to manipulate the shapes on page.

See batikfor an apache implementation of it and some examples (quite nice ones) , and adobe provides a nice viewer for the svg too..

The good point bt vector graphics is that it is scalable , and sizing of images do not affect the clarity/sharpness of the images

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Re:Quick Info

[KeyserDK]

This guy is clueless beyond imagination.. Anyway..

The Xfree86 stuff he is getting riled up about is probably this
While the gnome/gtk stuff is here and here
How he mixed it together is - impressive.

No, SVG is real now

[wombatmobile]

The 1.0 spec has been out for yonks already and there's an active SVG developer community out there.

Adobe has been distributing SVG viewer as part of the Acrobat 5 download for over a year now.

Nobody's waiting for Microsoft to innovate SVG or do their XDocs whatever thing; check these static examples generated from MS apps with SVGmaker: Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project

For building SVG web applications its true that there aren't comprehensive IDE tools available yet, but that hasn't stopped developers from creating some definitive web apps with simple home grown tools (starting with a text editor since SVG is just XML).

Like this interactive logical diagram

Check this awesome mapping example

And this wonderful airport flight management app.

Re:SVG vs. Flash

[Khalid]

> Here's one good reason why you'd want to implement Flash instead of SVG: SVG is Slooow.

I am not sure what this really means. This is like saying XML is slow, or better HTML is slow. SVG is a standard, you will have slow, and quick implementations, maybe current implementation have not been really optimised yet, but there is no real reason SVG might be intrinscly slow

Like PDF but its XML

[wombatmobile]

SVG is an image format that can faithfully reproduce a document display context, same like PDF but since SVG is XML you can mark it up by hand in a text editor, script it, transform it, integrate it directly with HTML or whatever you like. And no monopoly controls it.

This is a shameless plug but we are only 5 guys working out of a house, not a monopoly... (yet... ho ho ho). In the same way that Acrobat can generate PDF out of anything, SVGmaker can generate SVG out of Windows apps.

These are examples.

Sodipodi

[cyba]

Sodipodi uses SVG as its native file format.