{"id":84,"date":"2005-04-19T16:05:04","date_gmt":"2005-04-19T22:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=84"},"modified":"2005-04-19T16:05:04","modified_gmt":"2005-04-19T22:05:04","slug":"oh-where-art-thou-svg-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/19\/oh-where-art-thou-svg-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh SVG 1.2, Where Art Thou?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of <a href=\"http:\/\/rr.latenightpc.com\/wp\/archives\/2005\/04\/18\/adobe-buys-macromedia-what-does-it-mean-for-svg\/\">Adobe purchasing Macromedia<\/a>, thereby putting in question the Final Fate of Flash and the success of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\" title=\"Scalable Vector Graphics\">SVG<\/a>, I decided to check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Graphics\/SVG\/\">W3C SVG site<\/a>.  No reaction yet there (and I guess there wouldn't be, they are a standards body, not a bunch of gossip columnists\/business theorists).  However, I did notice that they put up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG12\/\">new Working Draft document for SVG 1.2<\/a> about a week ago.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new document is only an outline, as the complete document is not ready for publication but it does state a reorganization of documentation for SVG in the future.  In the past SVG 1.1 Full was expressed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVG11\/\">here<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/SVGMobile\/\">SVG 1.1 Tiny and Mobile<\/a> profiles were specified as subsets of SVG 1.1 Full.  To understand the Tiny\/Mobile profiles you had to reference the Full specification.<\/p>\n<p>Previous editions of SVG 1.2 Full were expressed as an extension to SVG 1.1 Full, but where it got ugly was that SVG 1.2 Tiny was expressed as a subset of SVG 1.2 Full (which means to understand SVG 1.2 Tiny you had to understand SVG 1.1 Full <strong>and<\/strong> SVG 1.2 Full).  Based on complaints, they have decided to restructure the SVG 1.2 documents such that:<\/p>\n<p>- SVG 1.2 Tiny will be expressed \"as a complete language specification\"<br \/>\n- SVG 1.2 Full will be expressed as an extension to SVG 1.2 Tiny<\/p>\n<p>This seems to make better sense, since SVG Tiny is simpler and can be considered a \"starting point\" in your journey to understanding SVG.  However, it also made me ponder if it is subtly indicating a shift in the focus of SVG for the mobile market.  i.e. Has W3C realized that they will be more successful targetting that area (while still providing the \"Full\" browser-based language as an add-on in case browsers ever get around to implementing it)?  Then again, it could just be an indication that there are a lot more developers on the Tiny\/Mobile side right now that have swayed opinions on the SVG Working Group...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of Adobe purchasing Macromedia, thereby putting in question the Final Fate of Flash and the success of SVG, I decided to check out the W3C SVG site. No reaction yet there (and I guess there wouldn&#8217;t be, they are a standards body, not a bunch of gossip columnists\/business theorists). However, I did [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,46,11,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-svg","category-technology","category-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}