SVG 1.2 Vector Effects

 
 A colleague and I are working on a paper together and have some
questions about SVG1.2 and, specifically, the vector effects parts: 

 1. I gather that SVG 1.2 is still a working draft. Will it become a
recommendation or will the WG just bypass it and move to 2.0? And if
so, will Vector Effects become a part of that?  

 2. What progress, if any, do we know of browsers or other user
agents actually implementing Vector Effects? I know that Opera has
implemented some very important parts of 1.2. Is there any inventory
of cross-browser progress on the various parts of 1.2?  

 3. Are there JavaScript implementations available as an API or
something for doing the various things discussed in Vector Effects? I
have a notion (albeit fuzzy) that as specs are moved along the path
from working draft to recommendation, they frequently find some
instantiation in actual code somewhere. 

 4. A number of the images in the vector effects primer are broken :
http://dev.w3.org/SVG/modules/vectoreffects/master/SVGVectorEffectsPrimer.html
[1] . Any chance those could be repaired? 

 regards 

 David


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http://dev.w3.org/SVG/modules/vectoreffects/master/SVGVectorEffectsPrimer.html