Graphics Activity Statement

Graphics continue to play a critical role in everyday usage of the Web, from decorative graphics through advertising to diagrams and interactive graphical user interfaces. Graphical front-ends for live networked data, Web services, and visualizations of the Semantic Web are current growth areas as is the use of graphics in industrial control, automation, and embedded applications.

The W3C Graphics Activity has worked in this area for over ten years. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), the current effort of the Activity, brings the powerful combination of interactive, animated two-dimensional vector graphics and Extensible Markup Language (XML). WebCGM 2.0 is used mainly in industrial and defence technical documents. Earlier work was concerned with Portable Network Graphics (PNG) and with WebCGM 1.0.

Highlights Since the Previous Advisory Committee Meeting

A second edition of SVG 1.1, incorporating all known errata, is in preparation. An expanded test suite, which includes tests for all areas of the specification affected by the errata items, is nearing completion. The Working Group expects to request PER once testing is complete.

Several modules of SVG have been published:

Other modules are being readied for publication. Up-to-date information on current work items and upcoming meetings may be found on the SVG WG wiki.

The SVG Interest Group holds biweekly telephone conferences and is developing PlanetSVG, an SVG Community site.

The WebCGM Working Group was rechartered until 30 April 2010 to develop a W3C Recommendation for WebCGM 2.1, starting with the WebCGM 2.1 draft, an OASIS Committee Specification . The Aerospace and Defence standard S100D release 3, uses WebCGM 2.0.
The group has published four documents:

WebCGM 2.1 (First public and Last Call Working Draft) on 17 September 2008 followed by a second Working Draft and a second Last Call of "WebCGM 2.1" on 04 June 2009. For this document the group has processed last call comments collected in its WebCGM 2.1 Last Call Disposition of comments
Recently the Working Group has published a WebCGM 2.1 Candidate Recommendation on 15 September 2009.

The group has started to collect implementation experience and test cases for its WebCGM 2.1 implementation report and test suite.

Upcoming Activity Highlights

A Proposed Edited Recommendation of SVG 1.1, plus several SVG modules, including Filters, Integration, Transformations and Vector Effects, are expected to be published shortly after the date of the November 2009 AC meeting. The SVG Working Group continues to actively work with the CSS Working Group to ensure architectural consistency and interoperability in their work on CSS Transforms, Transitions and Animations. Likewise the SVG Working group is working closely with the HTML Working Group to ensure that SVG may be used inline in HTML5.

Summary of Activity Structure

Group	Chair	Team Contact	Charter
SVG Working Group (participants)	Erik Dahlström, Cameron McCormack	Doug Schepers, Chris Lilley	Chartered until 30 April 2010
SVG Interest Group (participants)	Jeff Schiller, Doug Schepers	Doug Schepers	Chartered until 30 April 2010
WebCGM Working Group (participants)	Lofton Henderson	Thierry Michel	Chartered until 30 April 2010

This Activity Statement was prepared for the March 2010 W3C Advisory Committee Meeting (Members only) per section 5 of the W3C Process Document. Generated from group data.

Chris Lilley, Graphics Activity Lead

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