- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 02:12:45 +0200
- To: mb <hibou@cybercable.fr>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
mb wrote: > > Hello, > > I was curious to know when you believed you would have a finalaized the > process of SVG normalisation, and when we could expect to see the > standard incorporated into browsers. We moved to the next stage in that process today. There is a new draft [1] - the list of changes is at [2] - and the SVG working Draft is now in last call, which is a four-week period during which the other working groups whose specs we have referred to check that we did things OK. Comments from the public are also invited, and should be sent to svg-comments@w3.org. Public discussion should continue on this list, and we are particularly interested in comments from implementors (what was hard to understand, missing functionality, and so on). The stage after that is Proposed Recommendation, which is where att 350+ W3C Members have the opportunity to review the work and advise on whether it should be a W3C Recommendation. If that all goes well, then we do infact become a W3C Recommendation. At that point SVG is considered a stable and implementable specification, and we encourage people to put SVG into shipping products. Hope to see that around mid October or so. Having passed to that stage, the SVG WG will then concentrate on producinga test suite, and tracking implementations as they emerge to ensure that the spec is being interpreted correctly and that there is good interoperability. We will also be collecting erratta, of which which there will inevitably be some. As to support in browsers, you had better ask them. Customer need is generally assessed by extrapolating from the number of emails and so on requesting a particular feature. So send them some mail and let them know. I do note with pleasure the increasing number of implementations that are appearing. If anyone has any more renderers of generators or converters, please announce them here and I will get them linked into the public overview page [3]. Hope that answers your question. [1] http://www.w3.org/1999/08/WD-SVG-19990812/ [2] http://www.w3.org/1999/08/WD-SVG-19990812/changes.html [3] http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG
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