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SVG Pad: a Website to Share SVG Content
With SVG now being natively supported by both Firefox and Opera, a new SVG Pad tool is under development which promotes SVG by allow SVG authors to experiment and share their work. Planned future functionality includes a quickstart SVG tutorial page, and a SVG references page. If you like the SVG Pad tool and have idea on how to extend it, send your suggestions in.
01 Dec 2005 by SVG.org Quick News 
Firefox 1.5 Officially Released
Firefox 1.5 RC3 has become the official release of Firefox 1.5. This heralds the second major browser (after Opera 8) to natively support some form of SVG (Opera 8 supported SVG Tiny 1.1 back in April 2005).
Firefox's implementation of SVG is not exactly SVG 1.1 Full, nor does it fully cover SVG 1.1 Tiny nor SVG 1.1 Basic. Details of the Firefox 1.5 SVG implementation are located here, while details of the SVG implementation in the development version of Firefox (aka "the trunk") are located here (though this will not be released until some time in 2007 as Firefox 3).
30 Nov 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
W3C Welcomes Members at Advisory Committee Meeting
2005-11-29: W3C holds its semiannual Advisory Committee Meeting on on 29 November - 1 December in Montréal, Québec, Canada. W3C Member organizations participate in two days of discussions, special sessions and lightning talks on W3C Activities. Learn How to Become a W3C Member and join W3C at the next Advisory Committee Meeting during May 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. (Photo credit: Karl Dubost. News archive)
29 Nov 2005 by World Wide Web Consortium
W3C Renews Quality Assurance Interest Group
2005-11-28: W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity and the QA Interest Group, chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C) and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group (QA IG) is to provide a venue for W3C, its Membership, and the Web community to share their experiences and involvement with QA. Participation is open to W3C Members and the public. Visit the QA home page. (News archive)
28 Nov 2005 by World Wide Web Consortium
Working Draft: SPARQL Query Language for RDF
2005-11-28: The RDF Data Access Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the SPARQL Query Language for RDF. SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle") offers developers and end users a way to write and to consume search results across a wide range of information such as personal data, social networks and metadata about digital artifacts like music and images. SPARQL also provides a means of integration over disparate sources. Visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)
28 Nov 2005 by World Wide Web Consortium
W3C Renews Quality Assurance ...
W3C is pleased to announce the renewal of the Quality Assurance Activity and the QA Interest Group, chaired by Karl Dubost (W3C) and Lynne Rosenthal (NIST). The main objective of the QA Interest Group (QA IG) is to provide a venue for W3C, its Membership, and the Web community to share their experiences and involvement with QA. Participation is open to W3C Members and the public.
28 Nov 2005 by Quality Assurance Working Group at W3C
Working Drafts: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
2005-11-23: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released Working Drafts of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 and HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0 and a First Public Working Draft of Understanding WCAG 2.0. Following WCAG makes Web content more accessible to the vast majority of users, including people with disabilities and older users, using many different devices including a wide variety of assistive technology. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive)
23 Nov 2005 by World Wide Web Consortium
Working Draft: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
2005-11-23: The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has released a Working Draft of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 incorporating Last Call comments. The guidelines are written to help developers create accessible authoring interfaces that produce accessible Web content. Resulting content can be read by a broader range of readers including those with disabilities. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive)
23 Nov 2005 by World Wide Web Consortium
Note: Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA
2005-11-23: The WAI Protocols and Formats Working Group has released Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA: Alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web as a Working Group Note. Requests for visual verification of a bitmapped image pose problems for those who are blind, have low vision or have a learning disability such as dyslexia. The note examines ways for systems to test for human users while preserving access for users with disabilities. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. (News archive)
23 Nov 2005 by World Wide Web Consortium
W3C Continues ICANN Participation
2005-11-22: W3C is pleased to announce the nomination of Daniel Dardailler, W3C Associate Chair based in Europe, as W3C liaison to the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Board of Directors. Thomas Roessler will serve on the 2006 ICANN Nominating Committee (NomCom). W3C's involvement in ICANN and in the post-WSIS forum, soon to be launched, should help preserve the operational stability of the Internet and the Web in a transparent and open way while ensuring its unfragmented growth based on contributions from the international community. Read About W3C. (News archive)
22 Nov 2005 by World Wide Web Consortium
W3C Group Links Semantic Web With Medical Industry
2005-11-22: W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG). Chaired by Tonya Hongsermeier (Partners HealthCare) and Eric Neumann (Unaffiliated), the group is chartered to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the health care and life science industries. Aiding decision-making in clinical research, Semantic Web technologies will bridge many forms of biological and medical information across institutions. Read the press release and visit the Semantic Web home page. (News archive)
22 Nov 2005 by World Wide Web Consortium
Working Drafts: Internationalization Tag Set
2005-11-22: The Internationalization Tag Set Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of the Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) and an updated Working Draft of its requirements. Organized by data categories, this set of elements and attributes supports the internationalization and localization of schemas and documents. Implementations are provided for DTDs, XML Schema and Relax NG, and for existing vocabularies like XHTML, DocBook and OpenDocument. Visit the Internationalization home page. (News archive)
22 Nov 2005 by World Wide Web Consortium
W3C Group Links Semantic Web With Medical Industry
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Semantic Web Health Care and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG). Chaired by Tonya Hongsermeier (Partners Healthcare) and Eric Neumann (Unaffiliated), the group is chartered to improve collaboration, research and development, and innovation adoption in the health care and life science industries. Aiding decision-making in clinical research, Semantic Web technologies will bridge many forms of biological and medical information across institutions. Additional information is availiable on the press release.
22 Nov 2005 by W3C Semantic Web
SharpVectorGraphics Releases 0.4 Alpha
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:
- Interactivity
- Events
- Rendering Updates
- Rendering to HDC
- Scripting
- Source Code Reorganization
- Improved
<use>support - Improved Coordinate Handling
*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.
22 Nov 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
W3C Hosts Feed Validation Service
2005-11-21: W3C is pleased to launch the W3C Feed Validation Service, a free online tool open to creators of syndication feeds in formats such as RSS and Atom. Based on 'feedvalidator', and adding a SOAP Web service interface for interactive programming, the tool is useful for automatic or batch syntax checking. This service joins the existing pool of free, open source tools offered by W3C to the Web development community to help build a better World Wide Web. Learn more in the announcement. (News archive)
21 Nov 2005 by World Wide Web Consortium
W3C Launches Rich Web Client Activity
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.
17 Nov 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
"SVG implementations, Animation, and AJAX"-talk, Nov. 15th, Raleigh NC
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".
12 Nov 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
Opening Ceremnoy of the W3C Indian Office
2005-11-10: The W3C Indian Office is open in Noida, India. The Office is hosted by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC Noida). R. K. Verma is the Office Manager and the Deputy Office Manager is Vijay Gugnani. Stéphane Boyera, Steve Bratt, Max Froumentin, Ivan Herman and Richard Ishida are among those attending the opening ceremonies on 10-11 November in New Delhi. The opening ceremony on the 10th of November was attended by more than 250 delegates representing the academia and industry; this was followed by a day of tutorials on the 11th also attended by around 200 experts. The presentations are also linked from the event page.
10 Nov 2005 by World Wide Consortium Offices
MapViewSVG now supports Firefox 1.5
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.
10 Nov 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
SVG+XBL talk, Nov.17th, Atlanta
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)":
10 Nov 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
Ted Gould will talk about SVG, Los Angeles, Nov 15th
Ted Gould (of Inkscape fame, the popular free SVG editor) will talk about SVG at the Linux Users of Los Angeles November Meeting.
10 Nov 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
Rules Interchange Working Group Launched
W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group. The group is chartered to produce a language for the exchange of rules and their transfer between rule systems. Rules are executable pieces of declarative knowledge, important in managing complex and dynamic operations. Additional information about the Rule Interchange Format, can be found in the press release.
07 Nov 2005 by W3C Semantic Web
France Telecom R&D Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Ikivo
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.
05 Nov 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
Javascript SMIL Library Released
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 <set>, <animate>, <animateColor>, <animateMotion>, and <animateTransform> 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.
05 Nov 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Working Drafts updated
The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group released updated Working Drafts of the SKOS Core Guide and SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification. The drafts explain how to express classification schemes, thesauruses, subject heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries and other types of controlled vocabulary in RDF. Previous SKOS work was supported by the European project SWAD-Europe.
04 Nov 2005 by W3C Semantic Web
Nokia Releases Mobile Browser Supporting SVG Tiny
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 <object> 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.
03 Nov 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
Xml2PDF Version 2.4 Released
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.
02 Nov 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
Flying Saucer (current version is Beta R5) is a set...
Flying Saucer (current version is Beta R5) is a set of Java classes for rendering XHTML/XML + CSS (Java, Open Source)
02 Nov 2005 by Cascading Style Sheets
SVG.Open 2006 date
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.
30 Oct 2005 by SVG.org Quick News
nVIDIA and Hybrid Bringing Hardware-Accelerated Mobile SVG to the Masses
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.
28 Oct 2005 by SVG.org Quick News