Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2

SVG is a modularized XML language for describing two-dimensional graphics with animation and interactivity, and a set of APIs upon which to build graphics-based applications. This document specifies version 1.2 of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

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This is a W3C Last Call Working Draft of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2 specification. The SVG Working Group plans to submit this specification for consideration as a W3C Candidate Recommendation after examining feedback to this draft. Comments for this specification should have a subject starting with the prefix 'SVG 1.2 Comment:'. Please send them to www-svg@w3.org, the public email list for issues related to vector graphics on the Web. This list is archived and acceptance of this archiving policy is requested automatically upon first post. To subscribe to this list send an email to www-svg-request@w3.org with the word subscribe in the subject line. Comments are accepted until 24 November 2004.

This document lists the changes from SVG 1.1. It is not a complete language description.

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1 Introduction
2 Profiling SVG
3 XML Binding Language for SVG
4 Flowing text and graphics
5 Multiple pages
6 Text enhancements
7 Streaming
8 Progressive rendering
9 Vector effects
10 Rendering model
11 Painting enhancements
12 Media
13 Animation
14 Extended links
15 Application development
16 Events and Scripting
17 Non-graphical enhancements
Appendix A: DOM enhancements
Appendix B: API enhancements
Appendix C: SVG DOM Subset
Appendix D: Feature strings
Appendix E: List of events
Appendix F: RelaxNG schema for SVG 1.2
Appendix G: Media Type registration for image/svg+xml
Appendix H: References
Appendix I: Change log

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1 Introduction
2 Profiling SVG
3 XML Binding Language for SVG
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Simple example
- 3.3 sXBL restrictions with SVG
  - 3.3.1 Standalone SVG documents restriction
  - 3.3.2 Non-SVG element restriction
- 3.4 sXBL rendering and event handling rules with SVG
- 3.5 sXBL bindings for SVG resources
- 3.6 sXBL bindings for visual effects
- 3.7 The traitDef element
- 3.8 Trait mutation events
- 3.9 Document loading
- 3.10 Scripts and handlers
- 3.11 CSS Stylesheets
- 3.12 Focus and navigation
- 3.13 Error handling
4 Flowing text and graphics
- 4.1 The flowRoot element
- 4.2 The flowRegion element
- 4.3 The flowRegionExclude element
- 4.4 The flowDiv element
- 4.5 The flowPara element
- 4.6 The flowSpan element
- 4.7 The flowRegionBreak element
- 4.8 The flowLine element
- 4.9 The flowTref element
- 4.10 The flowImage element
- 4.11 The flowRef element
- 4.12 Text Flow
- 4.13 Determining Strip Location
  - 4.13.1 Calculating Text Regions
- 4.14 Alignment
  - 4.14.1 The text-align property
  - 4.14.2 The progression-align property
  - 4.14.3 Overflow
- 4.15 Example
- 4.16 DOM Interfaces
5 Multiple pages
- 5.1 Displaying Pages
- 5.2 Timing and animation
- 5.3 The pageSet element
- 5.4 The page element
- 5.5 The page-orientation property
- 5.6 Navigation between pages
6 Text enhancements
- 6.1 Editable Text Fields
  - 6.1.1 The editable attribute
  - 6.1.2 CSS pseudo class for editable text
- 6.2 Text Selection
7 Streaming
- 7.1 The timelineBegin attribute
- 7.2 The streamedContents attribute
8 Progressive rendering
9 Vector effects
- 9.1 The vectorEffect element
- 9.2 Common vector effect primitive attributes
- 9.3 The veStrokePath element
- 9.4 The veSetback element
- 9.5 The veAffine element
- 9.6 The veReverse element
- 9.7 The veJoin element
- 9.8 The veUnion element
- 9.9 The veIntersect element
- 9.10 The veExclude element
- 9.11 The veFill element
- 9.12 The veStroke element
- 9.13 The veMarker element
- 9.14 The veMarkerPath element
- 9.15 The vePath element
- 9.16 The vePathRef element
- 9.17 Examples
- 9.18 The vector-effect property
10 Rendering model
- 10.1 Enhanced Alpha Compositing
  - 10.1.1 Introduction
  - 10.1.2 Alpha compositing
  - 10.1.3 The clip-to-self property
  - 10.1.4 The enable-background property
  - 10.1.5 The knock-out property
  - 10.1.6 The comp-op property
- 10.2 Enhanced Transformations
  - 10.2.1 The user space transformation
  - 10.2.2 ViewBox to Viewport transformation
  - 10.2.3 Element Transform Stack
  - 10.2.4 The Current Transform Matrix
  - 10.2.5 The ref() transform value
11 Painting enhancements
- 11.1 Background Fill Property
- 11.2 Background Fill Opacity Property
- 11.3 Inheritance into the shadow tree
- 11.4 The solidColor Element
- 11.5 Using device colors
  - 11.5.1 The device-color keyword
  - 11.5.2 DOM Interface
- 11.6 ICC named colors
- 11.7 Specifying paint
- 11.8 Controlling the rendering color space
  - 11.8.1 The rendering-color-space property
- 11.9 Filter Region extensions
- 11.10 Prefetching resources
  - 11.10.1 The prefetch element
- 11.11 Referencing external stylesheets
- 11.12 Increased switch availability
- 11.13 The min-unit-scale and max-unit-scale attributes
- 11.14 Testing for formats
- 11.15 Testing for font availability
- 11.16 Overlaying graphics
  - 11.16.1 The overlay property
    - 11.16.1.1 The overlay-host property
  - 11.16.2 Example
- 11.17 Modifications to cursors
  - 11.17.1 The cursor property
  - 11.17.2 Inline cursor content
- 11.18 Highlighting
- 11.19 Automatic text length
- 11.20 More rendering hints
  - 11.20.1 The cache property
    - 11.20.1.1 The static property
  - 11.20.2 The snap property
12 Media
- 12.1 The audio element
  - 12.1.1 Supported audio format
- 12.2 The video element
- 12.3 Alternate content based on display resolutions
  - 12.3.1 The multiImage element
  - 12.3.2 The subImageRef element
  - 12.3.3 The subImage element
  - 12.3.4 Selecting the image for rendering
- 12.4 Media Properties
- 12.5 Loading images
13 Animation
- 13.1 The animation element
  - 13.1.1 Transition effects
    - 13.1.1.1 The transition element
    - 13.1.1.2 The transition attributes
- 13.2 Media elements
- 13.3 Time containers
- 13.4 Attributes for run-time synchronization
- 13.5 Time Manipulation
- 13.6 Enhanced ElementTimeControl interface
- 13.7 Triggering animations using key events
14 Extended links
15 Application development
- 15.1 Element focus and navigation
  - 15.1.1 The focusable property
  - 15.1.2 Navigation
  - 15.1.3 Obtaining focus
- 15.2 Tooltips
  - 15.2.1 The hint element
  - 15.2.2 The tooltip property
16 Events and Scripting
- 16.1 The script element
- 16.2 The handler element
- 16.3 DOM Interfaces
- 16.4 Processing order for user interface event
17 Non-graphical enhancements
- 17.1 Externally referenced documents
- 17.2 Referencing external titles, descriptions and metadata
- 17.3 Adding Copyright information to an SVG document
- 17.4 Specifying a snapshot time
Appendix A: DOM enhancements
- A.1 DOM Level 3 Support
- A.2 Media Interfaces
- A.3 Conversion of Coordinates
- A.4 Filtering DOM Events
- A.5 Modification to getScreenCTM
- A.6 Accessing the client CTM
- A.7 Wheel event
- A.8 Obtaining the bounds of rendered content
- A.9 Notification of shape modification
  - A.9.1 The ShapeChange event
  - A.9.2 The RenderedBBoxChange event
Appendix B: API enhancements
- B.1 SVGTimer Interface
- B.2 Network interfaces
  - B.2.1 URLRequest interface
  - B.2.2 Security Concerns
  - B.2.3 Socket Connections
- B.3 Monitoring download progress
  - B.3.1 The Progress event
- B.4 File Upload
  - B.4.1 Interface FileDialog
  - B.4.2 Interface FilesSelected
  - B.4.3 Interface FileList
  - B.4.4 Interface File
  - B.4.5 URLRequest additions
  - B.4.6 Connection additions
  - B.4.7 Security considerations
- B.5 Persistent Client-side Data storage
- B.6 Global Interface
Appendix C: SVG DOM Subset
Appendix D: Feature strings
Appendix E: List of events
Appendix F: RelaxNG schema for SVG 1.2
Appendix G: Media Type registration for image/svg+xml
- G.1 Introduction
- G.2 Registration of Media Type image/svg+xml
Appendix H: References
Appendix I: Change log

Authors

The authors of this specification are the participants of the W3C SVG Working Group.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2

W3C Working Draft 27 October 2004

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