XML News from Wednesday, March 31, 2004

The W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group has posted the sixth public working draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.2. "The SVG Working Group consider the feature set of SVG 1.2 to be approaching stability. However, there are some cases where the descriptions in this document are incomplete and simply show the current thoughts of the SVG Working Group on the feature, or list the open issues. Therefore, this document should not be considered stable." Changes since the fifth public draft include:

• Added support for CSS 3 Color property value rgba() syntax.
• Switch is dynamic; that is, constantly evaluated.
• Cursors allow SVG content and animation
• A new interface for filtering events such as mutations only on a particular attribute name, mouse drags, or events in a particular phase
• New :highlight pseudo-class
• Non Scaling Strokes
• overlay and overlay-host properties
• Methods to set and retrieve client-side data stored between sessions
• Removed the requiredView attribute, renamed min-pixel-width to min-unit-scale.
• Three new rendering hints, static, cache and snap, for sprites
• The traitDef element allows custom attributes to be exposed to the animation engine
• vector-effect property.

The W3C SVG Working group has also posted the second working draft of Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic, Version 1.2. SVG Tiny 1.2 is a "backwardly-compatible update of SVG Tiny 1.1 which adds some new features from SVG 1.2 add adds other features based on implementor and designer feedback on SVG Tiny 1.1."