Change History

SVG 1.1 changes since the 30 October 2001 Working Draft

The following summarizes the changes to the SVG 1.1 specification from the 30 October 2001 First Working Draft to the 8 January 2002 Second Working Draft.

• Reorganisation to more closely follow the SVG 1.0 Recommendation chapters.
• Many of the elements in the first draft were missing attributes and/or had incorrect content models.
• More description of the modularization process. Added section describing profiling of SVG 1.1 using the modules. State that the term "SVG" without qualification implies "SVG Full".
• The 'use' element was added to the Tiny Structure Module.
• Added a short mention of the lack of a complete self-contained specification. The third public version of SVG 1.1 will integrate this draft and the SVG 1.0 Recommendation.
• Described the reasoning behind leaving viewport coordinates out of SVG 1.1. They will be considered for SVG 2.0.
• Removed the profile attribute and added the baseProfile attribute. More work needed.
• Added a link to the SVG 1.1 schema.
• Added definition of Core Attributes set which contains id, xml:base, xml:lang and xml:space. These attributes are on every element.
• Renamed the Opacity and Graphics Attribute Sets (removed "Tiny" prefix).
• Added missing altGlyphDef, altGlyphItem and glyphRef elements to Full Text Module.
• The set of attributes on radialGradient in the first draft was incorrect. This has been fixed.
• Allow TextElement children in the Basic Clip Module.
• Removed the Basic Mask module as there was no difference between it and the Full Mask Module.
• Removed marker attribute from Marker Attribute Set. It is a shorthand property and as thus is not allowed as a presentation attribute.
• Added font-face-src, font-face-format, font-face-uri and definition-src to Font modules.
• Added the scripting module that was missing from the first draft.