SVG Mobile Profiles

• The “mobile Web” is coming more and more to the fore
  • Web access from PDA-s, phones, car navigation systems, ...
  • fastest growing segment of the market!
  • devices are not (yet...) as powerful as workstations
• SVG Mobile Profiles with restricted functionalities:
  • SVG Basic: for higher level mobile devices (e.g.: PDA)
    • All numbers must be limited to a 16 bits range
    • No elliptical arcs in paths
    • Subset of attributes
    • Subsets of filters (e.g., no lighting)
    • Scripting facility is optional
    • etc
  • SVG Tiny: for restricted mobile devices (e.g.: simple phone)
    • All the SVG Basic profile restrictions
    • No clipping, no opacity, no filters
    • No text on path
    • etc
• Profiles are subsets: Tiny < Basic < Full