- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:01:00 -0400
- To: SVG WG <public-svg-wg@w3.org>
Hi, SVG WG- We talked about this before, and it has frequently come up in the community and in the SVG IG. One of the past problems with SVG is that search engines did not seem to index it, making it harder to find and less desirable to use. This, despite the fact that SVG is chock-full of text, metadata, and links, and has properties as an image. To facilitate the SVG IG following up with search engines on this score, I have added the following passage under "Conforming SVG Interpreters" [1]: [[ A Conforming SVG Interpreter which indexes SVG content (e.g. a search engine) must, at a minimum, extract and process all textual data, including the content of the text content elements and descriptive elements, with attention paid to author-supplied alternate languages for purpose of presentation and translation. Additionally, it should process element types, document structure, metadata, and link data to inform the indexing. A Conforming SVG Interpreter which indexes images should categorize and represent SVG content as an image. Such an SVG Interpreter may apply heuristics to the geometric semantics of the SVG document or to the rendered image (such as performing face-recognition) to improve indexing. ]] Please let me know what you think. [1] http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.2T/master/conform.html#ConformingSVGInterpreters Regards- -Doug Schepers W3C Team Contact, WebApps, SVG, and CDF
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