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Friday November 15, 2002

W3C Supports SVG

I found this while using the latest (1.0.2) version of NetNewsWire to surf my RSS subscriptions.

In a development that could help Adobe erode some of Macromedia's vector graphics lead, the Web's most influential standards group issued a draft designed to make its vector graphics standard work more easily on cell phones.

Facing an end-of-year publishing deadline, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week also released a flurry of proposals covering linking and querying Web pages and XML documents.

But the consortium reserved most of its enthusiasm for the vector graphics changes, which it hopes will help nudge the industry away from the accepted--and proprietary--standard, Macromedia's Flash technology.

"What we're seeing are some exciting developments on the SVG front," said W3C representative Janet Daly.

SVG, or (Scalable Vector Graphics), is the W3C's method for creating vector graphics, which are more flexible than the common bitmaps that form most of the graphics on the Web. In contrast to bitmaps, which are shipped fully rendered and defined pixel by pixel, vector graphics are composed of mathematical descriptions of curves and forms. This composition results in a more compact file, the ability to render the image to fit television or monitor screens with varying resolutions, and greater ease in animating the image. [W3C sees graphics on cell phones]

SVG is cool - it allows you to draw graphics using XML. It'll certainly make for lighter web pages and flash-type presentations using simply text. Watch this one, it'll be hot!

Later: I found this simple SVG Example and a whole slew of W3C Presentations.

Posted in The Web at Nov 15 2002, 04:38:12 PM MST 1 Comment
Comments:

Boy, that took forever. I remember playing with SVG over 1.5 years ago. Since I didn't know much XML, and little to no graphics capacity, my playing didn't go far. But even then I saw it as a way to topple Flash (and enable serverside java to create fancier graphics).

Posted by Lance on November 16, 2002 at 09:05 AM MST #

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