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SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML. SVG 1.1 is a W3C Recommendation and forms the core of the current SVG developments. SVG 1.2 is the specification currently being developed as is available in draft form (comments welcome). The SVG Mobile Profiles: SVG Basic and SVG Tiny are targetted to resource-limited devices and are part of the 3GPP platform for third generation mobile phones. SVG Print is a set of guidelines to produce final-form documents in XML suitible for archiving and printing. sXBL is a binding language for SVG content. Read more about SVG.
SVG Open 2006: The 5th annual conference on SVG will be held 22-25 August 2006 in Victoria, Canada.
News items syndicated from svg.org.
The SharpVectorGraphics project, a.k.a. SVG#, the C# SVG implementation, has released a new 0.4 alpha version. Some of the new features and enhancements from v0.3.1 include:
*Warning: This project now contains unsafe code blocks to support image transparency and hit testing, additionally, security models for scripting support is still under development.
The W3C has just announced the creation of the new Web APIs Working Group and Web Application Formats Working Group as part of the Rich Web Client Activity.
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Rich Web Client Activity for client-side Web Application development. The Web APIs Working Group chaired by Robin Berjon (Expway) will document and build standard Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) such as XMLHttpRequest, an AJAX component. The Web Application Formats Working Group chaired by Art Barstow (Nokia) will develop declarative languages for Web Applications, building on existing technologies in the marketplace where possible.
At the next Tri-XML meeting, Doug Schepers from Vectoreal, someone pretty much at the forefront of developing anything SVG, holds a presentation named "SVG implementations, Animation, and AJAX".
MapViewSVG, the well-known tool for internet mapping with ESRI ArcGIS and ArcView GIS, now supports native SVG in Firefox 1.5. All functionalities and interactivities offered by MapViewSVG are supported.
As found on the XML 2005 conference schedule: Kurt Cagle (Netscape 9 chief architect, technical writer and chairman of SVG Open 2006) will talk about "Binding the Graphical Web (Component and Data Bindings with XBL, XHTML and SVG)":
Ted Gould (of Inkscape fame, the popular free SVG editor) will talk about SVG at the Linux Users of Los Angeles November Meeting.
SVGT provider Ikivo has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with France Telecom R&D; to evaluate, test and deploy prototype rich media services based on Ikivo's SVG Tiny 1.2 Multimedia Player. They will use Ikivo's Animator authoring product to design rich media mobile SVG services, that could be deployed to Orange mobile customers.
I have developed a JavaScript implementation of SMIL, for use in Firefox1.5, Batik, SVG#, and any other SVG implementations that do not currently support SMIL. It provides basic support for the , , , , and elements.
This is an Open Source library, and is being released through Vectoreal. You can read the full release notes and a sample file at Vectoreal's SmilScript page, or download the gzipped script file.
Nokia today announced the release of their new mobile browser for the S60 Edition 3 platform, formerly known as Series 60. It was already previously know that S60 Ed. 3 supported SVG Tiny via the JSR 226 J2ME APIs, but now Nokia, through their new browser, also support SVG Tiny 1.1 Plus in a browsing context. Within this new browser, SVGT is supported as a plug-in through the Netscape APIs, allowing SVGT contents to be referenced from XHTML using the element. Additionally, the browser can also display SVG files standalone as SVG documents get requested directly or through the traversal of an XHTML hyperlink.
Built on the increasingly popular KDE and Apple WebCore and JavaScriptCore open-source technologies, the new Nokia S60 browser also supports a host of W3C standards such as HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, CSS 1, 2, and 3 (partially) as well as DOM Levels 1 and 2. Nokia phones supporting the browser are the Nokia E60, E61, E70, 3250, N80, N71 and N92, all featured on the Nokia section of the Mobile SVG phones list.
A new version of Altsoft Xml2PDF has just been released. Among new SVG features are: support for text paths, extensions for creating PDF attachments, layered PDF documents and document properties. Also, ASP.NET API edition is available that allows to use SVG inside web pages and get formatted PDF in the user's output stream.
Kurt Cagle, chairman of SVG.Open 2006, writes in his weblog about SVG Open 2006:
... it looks now to be August 22-25 (the last day is still in some contention)...
... a call for papers in the next month or so...
More news on the topic as we get it.
Worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies nVIDIA and Hybrid, a finnish company focused on bringing 2D and 3D graphics to consumer devices, today announced collaboration to bring hardware-accelerated mobile SVG to the masses. Hybrid already have a comprehensive set of 3D and 2D technologies implemented in their Mobile Framework v6 software architecture, but by partnering with nVIDIA they will be able to switch OpenVG rendering capabilities to a hardware layer, while retaining convenient high-level layers such as SVG Tiny and JSR 226.
A front-runner in all thing Mobile SVG, Sony Ericsson has just announced the new version of their Themes Creator. Using this application, one can create pre-packaged themes to customize every bit of a Sony Ericsson phone's user interface, allowing outmost personalization. Themes created in the Themes Creator can then be sent to the device for one-click install. The latest new feature added to this tool is vizualisation of SVG files used in themes, for things such as standby screen, startup image, screen saver, etc. The SVG Tiny 1.1 player buried into the Themes Creator is none other than Ikivo's SVG Player, already bundled in all of Sony Ericsson's 22 SVG-enabled models.
This SVG Import for OpenOffice 2.0 uses the Batik toolkit. The filter produces nearly perfect results for simple SVGs. However, color and transparency gradients are still problematic (due to deficiencies in the current OpenOffice.org implementation of OpenDocument).
Opera has just released a preview download (Windows, Mac OS X and UNIX) of their web browser Version 9 that has improved SVG support (including SVG scripting!). Examples of code that now works can be seen with the menus of my site as well as my online SVG Tetris game.
Xara recently announced that its product XaraXtreme, a vector graphics application, will be open sourced and ported to Linux and Mac OS X. In parallel, Xara is sponsoring the development of a Xara to SVG converter, as part of the Uber-Converter open source project, that will better enable interoperability with the Inkscape project. More infos at http://www.xaraxtreme.org, http://www.inkscape.org/, news4neighbours and Uber-Converter project homepage. With the announcement of the Adobe/Macromedia merger and the likely abandonement of Macromedia Freehand, a new vector graphics alternative to Adobe Illustrator is good news.
No time to rest this October as three new phones from Nokia have just been announced. The three new phones, E60, E61 and E70, are the first models of the new business-oriented "E" series. All models are running Series 60 Edition 3, the latest evolution of the Series 60 platform, which packs support SVG Tiny 1.1 as a built-in feature, primarily for customization of the phone's user interface. This focus on user interface customization is also well-illustrated by Nokia's recent support of SVG in their Nokia Theme Studio tool.
Mark Rowe, a contributer to the WebKit (Apple's web page rendering component) open-source project, is keeping an updated list of different nightly binary builds for the project's outcome. Notably, following preliminary announcement that SVG would land in WebKit, a build of Safari with SVG support as well as a build of DrawTest, the standalone development SVG viewer, is posted every day. Mac OS X users are now encouraged to download both applications and test them in order to provide early feedback to the people running the WebKit+SVG project.
At this year's Smartphone Show, Sony Ericsson has announced the early 2006 release of their next smartphone, the P990. Naturally, like the vast majority of the Sony Ericsson mobile phone lineup, the P990 supports mobile SVG as a built-in feature for impressive animated wallpapers, menus and other graphic elements
. The impressive device packs in both 3G and WiFi (802.11b) networking, a QVGA screen with 262,000 colors, a 2 megapixel camera on the back, a VGA camera for video calls on the front, an FM radio tuner with RDS, a full-fledged kayboard, BlackBerry capabilities, all running on top of the new UIQ 3 user interface.
Xoetrope, an Irish independent software vendor, has just announced version 2 of their XUI open-source, XML-based, rich-client application building framework. Using XUI, developers can create rich client applications using a dedicated XML grammar which is then deployed to clients as Java applications. As a new addition in version 2, support for SVG graphics within applications has been added courtesy of the TinyLine project.
SVG Home Page •
About SVG •
Specifications:
SVG 1.2 (draft) •
SVG 1.1 •
SVG Mobile 1.2 (draft) •
SVG Mobile •
SVG Print •
sXBL •
Requirements •
Reference:
Test Suite •
SVG Implementations •
Admin:
Roadmap •
Members/Authors •
Charter