Meeting 2008-06

SVG Interest Group

2008-06 Meeting Agenda

• Co-Chairs: Doug Schepers, Jeff Schiller

Roll Call and Introductions

• briefly introduce yourself, let us know your particular areas of interest surrounding SVG

Purpose, Framing

• discuss purpose of Interest Groups within W3C
• discuss intentions of SVG IG (including primary activities and more general activities such as "fostering SVG community growth")
• briefly introduce some of the sub-activities that we will start working on in the short term

Accessibility Activity

• there is an opportunity to publicize and increase the accessibility of SVG
• Tasks:
  • determine task force (Jonathan Chetwynd, Jeff Schiller)
  • determine best practices and technical challenges for:
    • making SVG accessible for those with physical and mental disabilities
    • authoring SVG resources that are accessible by people speaking different languages
    • search engine accessibility of SVG content on the web ('regular' search AND image search)
  • publish W3C note covering overall accessibility challenges and opportunities for SVG
    • recommend best practices for authors, services
    • offer improvement suggestions to the SVG WG for consideration in future recommendations
    • engage with toolmakers to drive enhancements (for example, submit ideas and patches to Inkscape)

Designer Feedback Activity

• We need an effective way to gather feedback from designers about features in SVG
• feedback should be at a higher level:
  • what "cool effect" or feature do they want to see in the specification?
  • What kind of filter effects, gradients, capabilities do they want?
• Tasks:
  • gather task force, designers and activity lead (Doug?)
  • Schedule meetings to frame the topic, have discussions, and coalesce ideas

Internationalization and Localization Task Forces

• SVG engineers and companies should have a way to communicate in their own language and culture
• use cases and markets vary from country to country, so locals need to be able to help drive spec features
• dedicated mailing list for each key area
• local organizers
  • find organizer in Japan, identify key interests

SVG Community Site

• many websites are interested in being a part of the SVG community
• we would like to contribute to developing the premier SVG community site
• Tasks:
  • need to establish people interested in contributing to this activity, including the lead
  • need to establish what the SVG community site needs (i.e. wiki, blog, links, forums)
  • need to establish what software the site will use (i.e. drupal?)
  • need to establish what kind of hosting and ownership the site will have

SVG Torture Tests

• Acid tests have proven that they are very effective ways of moving interoperability and getting browser developer attention to standards lagging on the web
• suggestion for a series of tests: visually simple, packed with edge cases and features
• test subset of features: SVGT 1.1, Text, SMIL, SVGB 1.1, SVGF 1.1 (DOM+Filters), etc
• need to get specific tests from the community
• should also test from a CDF/WICD perspective (CDR, etc)

Future Activities

• SVG Security:
  • how to properly sanitize SVG? best practices and recommendations
• Layout use cases/reqts

Next Call and Focus?