As a result, chapters whose normative content in the SVG 1.1 specification has been moved to other specifications have been removed from the SVG 2 draft but the features are still supported in compliant documents. The Editor's Draft is updated intermittently and includes comments as to whether proposed changes are "at risk" due to lack of implementation.Īn important objective of SVG 2 is to improve compatibility with related standards as they are updated and implemented by browsers, (e.g., CSS, HTML, and the Web Open Font Format ( WOFF), which is a container format or "wrapper" for font data in already-existing formats). See latest Recommendation for SVG 2 (in Candidate status as of October 2018) and the latest Editor's Draft. At this level of generality, the description in the Wikipedia page applies to what is expected in SVG 2. Using these features, graphical objects can be grouped, styled, transformed and composited into previously rendered objects. According to About SVG from Inkscape, "The features of SVG 1.1 include paths, basic shapes (like circles and polygons), text, fill, stroke and markers, color, gradients and patterns, clipping, masking and compositing, filter effects, interactivity, linking, scripting, animation, fonts and metadata." The Wikipedia entry for Scalable Vector Graphics provides informative annotations for these features. SVG includes markup for functional features that support the construction and management of the displayed picture. The XML DTD for SVG (version 1.x) allows for incorporation of three types of graphic objects into a picture for display on the web as a free-standing image file or visual element in a web page: vector graphic shapes (e.g., paths consisting of straight lines and curves or basic shapes like circles), raster graphics (raster images), and text with visual effects. For more details on the history of SVG, see Notes below. SVG 1.1 has been a W3C Recommendation since 2003 and is widely supported. As of April 2020, the latest version is a Candidate Recommendation for version 2. The latest W3C Recommendation can be found at. It was natural to seek a similar vector-based approach to web-based presentation." After an initial public draft in February 1999, the first version of SVG was approved as a W3C Recommendation in September 2001. during the 1980s had given the print-based community a way of describing images in ways which could be rescaled to adapt to the resolution of the display device, usually a printer. As stated in An SVG Primer for Today's Browsers, "The PostScript page description language developed by Adobe Systems Inc. The Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format family is a family of openly documented XML-based formats for two-dimensional vector graphics for use on the web, developed and maintained under the auspices of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) by the SVG Working Group. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) File Format Family