SVG 2 is a Candidate Recommendation!

Hi, folks–

As you may have heard, SVG 2 was published as a Candidate Recommendation 
(CR) specification [1][2] yesterday.

This means that the SVG WG believes the spec is feature-complete and 
stable. It's the equivalent of a "Last Call", and signals our intent to 
concentrate on completing our test suite and implementation report, in 
order to progress to Proposed Recommendation and then to Recommendation 
(a W3C standard).

We have a list of new features in SVG 2 [3]. If there is sufficient 
interest, we may expand this list into explanations and examples in our 
SVG Authoring Guide [4], and we are happy to assist others in writing 
articles for developers to promote best practice. If you're interested, 
contact me off-list.

We welcome comments and feedback on the SVG 2 spec on this list [5], or 
as Github issues [6]. Please note that substantive issues, especially 
feature requests, may be deferred to a future version of the spec, so we 
can complete SVG 2 in a timely way.

We encourage implementations in authoring tools and browsers and 
browsers, and welcome feedback from implementation experience.

We also welcome help in creating tests, and in filing bug reports with 
browsers and other software to improve interoperability and support for 
SVG 2. If you're interested in helping finalize SVG 2 in this way, 
contact me offlist.


SVG 2 is a significant step forward for SVG. This is a significant 
rewriting and reorganization of the SVG spec, and while we have many 
more changes planned for future versions of the spec, we decided to 
complete SVG 2 and defer other changes, so that developers and designers 
could take advantage of the improvements and new features as early as 
possible. We chose the final version based on need, on readiness, and on 
the likelihood of prompt implementation in users agents (like browsers 
and authoring tools).

If your favorite feature request did not make it into SVG 2, please let 
us know, and we will try to make sure it can be included in SVG 3. SVG 2 
has helped us lay the foundation for publishing a new SVG specification 
every year or two, and we hope to make faster progress in the future.

Thank you to everyone who uses SVG, who's provided feedback, and 
especially to the hard work of the SVG WG in making SVG 2 possible.


[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/CR-SVG2-20160915/
[3] https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/wiki/SVG-2-new-features
[4] http://w3c.github.io/svgwg/specs/svg-authoring/#new-features-in-svg-2
[5] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/
[6] https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues

Thanks!
Doug

Received on Friday, 16 September 2016 21:16:00 UTC