In 1989 the Air Transport Association (ATA) adopted Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) as the format for the interchange of 2-dimensional vector based technical illustrations in maintenance documentation. Both The Boeing Company and United Airlines, along with much of the rest of the industry, use CGM internally to transfer 2-dimensional vector data between diverse systems.
The decision to use CGM, both at the industry level and by individual companies, was made after a review of available open and proprietary formats. Requirements for creation,
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 2.0 (SMIL 2.0) is an XML-based language that allows authors to describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen.
Rather than being formulated as a standalone multimedia vocabulary (like SMIL 1.0), SMIL 2.0 syntax and semantics may be reused in other XML-based languages, as when SMIL components are used for integrating timing into eXstensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) or Scalable Vector
Let me begin by giving a bit of my background which can help make clearer where I am coming from and the reasons why I am suggesting that more attention should be given to how graphics can look using the very rich and subtle tools available in SVG.
My education was in art - painting, design, photography, art history and art criticism mostly - and that is what I have taught for the past 45 years. In 1994, I was asked to teach a course, Commentary on Art, at a distance and luckily, for me, that winter Netscape appeared and I was able to use it for the
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a format of graphic that can be generated on the fly by using the data extracted from XML files or a database. Creating images on the fly in the other formats like GIF, JPEG, and BMP are not easy since they cannot be created dynamically by extracting data from the data file. Moreover if you view images from these formats at 200% or 300% of the actual size you will not see the images clearly and you will be seeing granular forms of the areas in the images. You need external tools like Paintbrush, Photoshop, and Fireworks
A quantum leap in Web graphics is happening right now.A new technology defined by the W3C called SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is bringing rich, compelling, interactive, high-resolution graphics to the Web.
This technology is particularly attractive to GIS developers and users.
Today, most mapping systems employ two approaches when delivering interactive maps on the web.The first approach is the familiar Java applet.The second approach involves generating map images on the server and delivering them to the user in either GIF or JPEG image
Status of this document
This document is a work in progress representing the current consensus of the W3C Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group. This draft of the SVG Requirements document has been approved by the SVG working group to be posted for review by W3C members and other interested parties. It is the first public review draft of this document. Publication as a working draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C membership.
Review comments from the public should be sent to www-svg@w3.org, which is an automatically archived email list.
Looking to help high-end handheld gadgets better adapt to the way video games and other graphics-oriented software are displayed, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday recommended Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG profiles be anointed standards.
SVG is an open file format that enables two-dimensional images to be displayed in XML pages on the Web. SVG enables the viewing of an image on a computer display of any size and resolution. SVG also allows text within images to be recognized as such, so that the text can be located by a
Short for Scalable Vector Graphics, a vector graphics file format that enables two-dimensional images to be displayed in XML pages on the Web. Vector images are created through text-based commands formatted to comply with XML specifications. In contrast to JPEG and GIF images on the Web, which are bitmapped and always remain a specified size, SVG images are scalable to the size of the viewing window and will adjust in size and resolution according to the window in which it is displayed.
Benefits of SVG include:
* smaller files size than regular
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