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SVG was developed by the W3C SVG
SVG Development
SVG was developed by the W3C SVG Working Group starting in 1998, after
Macromedia and Microsoft introduced Vector Markup Language (VML) whereas Adobe
Systems and Sun Microsystems submitted a competing format known as PGML. The
working group was chaired by Chris Lilley of the W3C.
* SVG 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on 2001-09-04.
* SVG 1.1 became a W3C Recommendation on 2003-01-14.
* SVG Tiny and SVG Basic (the Mobile SVG Profiles) became W3C Recommendations on
2003-01-14. These are described as profiles of SVG 1.1.
* SVG Tiny 1.2 and SVG Full 1.2 are both currently W3C Working Drafts. SVG Tiny
1.2 was initially released as a profile, and later refactored to be a complete
specification, including all needed parts of SVG 1.1 and SVG 1.2. As of
2005-12-07, SVG Tiny 1.2 is now in Last Call Working Draft. A similarly
refactored draft for SVG 1.2 Full has not yet been released.
Mobile profiles
Because of industry demand, two mobile profiles were introduced with SVG 1.1:
SVG Tiny (SVGT) and SVG Basic (SVGB). These are subsets of the full SVG
standard, mainly intended for user agents with limited capabilities. In
particular, SVG Tiny was defined for highly restricted mobile devices such as
cellphones, and SVG Basic was defined for higher level mobile devices, such as
PDAs.
Neither mobile profile includes support for the full DOM, while only SVG Basic
has optional support for scripting, but because they are fully compatible
subsets of the full standard most SVG graphics can still be rendered by devices
which only support the mobile profiles.
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