Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group

The mission of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group is to develop and maintain SVG.
 
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a language that allows authors and users to describe graphics in a way which is scalable to different device resolutions, acessible, and animatable.
 
The SVG WG develops the SVG specifications. They consist of the following, somewhat independent technologies, all of which are in scope for the SVG Working Group:

• A syntax for retained-model structured graphics. Both XML and HTML5 syntaxes are suported. Styling characteristics are CSS properties, expressed as stylesheets or as presentation attributes.
• A rendering model which describes how the elements of SVG produce a graphical representation
• An Object Model, a set of standard APIs, to which libraries can be written for manipulating dynamic and responsive graphics.

As a primary focus in this charter period, the group will concentrate on the stabilization and interoperability testing of the core SVG 2 specification. As part of that testing, features which are in the reference draft of SVG2 and which do not meet the stability and interoperability requirements for a Proposed Recommendation may be moved to separate specification modules, work on which would remain in scope, but at a lower priority.
 
As a secondary focus, the group may address modules for new graphical features for SVG, once there is broad consensus on adding each such feature to the Web Platform. The SVG Community Group (and also any other fora, such as WICG) will incubate new proposals. Once an incubated proposal is implemented and available (in nightly or testing builds) in at least one major browser, and has support from other SVG implementers, it may be adopted by the SVG Working Group. A requirements document will be used to collect together these features.