W3C issues draft of SVG vector graphics standard.(Scalable Vector Graphics)(Technology Information)(Brief Article)

Incorporating the interests of a variety of graphics software vendors, the W3C last month issued the first draft of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The new format, written in XML, should bring Postscript-based imaging and vector graphics to the mainstream Web within a year. The impetus for SVG came last spring, when Adobe and Microsoft submitted, within weeks of each other, the PGML and VML proposals (Vol. 2, No. 9, page 21). Those proposals were …