The example above shows a notation named " type-image-svg " that references the standard public FPI and the system identifier ( the standard URI ) of an SVG 1. 1 document, instead of specifying just a system identifier as in the first example ( which was a relative URI interpreted locally as a MIME type ).

SVG Tiny 1. 2 was initially released as a profile and later refactored to be a complete specification, including all needed parts of SVG 1. 1 and SVG 1. 2.

* SVG 1. 1 Second Edition, which includes all the errata and clarifications, but no new features to the original SVG 1. 1 was released on 16 August 2011.

SVG was also accommodated in MPEG-4 Part 11, in the Extensible MPEG-4 Textual ( XMT ) format-a textual representation of the MPEG-4 multimedia content using XML.

In particular, SVG Tiny was defined for highly restricted mobile devices such as cellphones, and SVG Basic was defined for higher-level mobile devices, such as PDAs.

Many visual effects are possible, and the SVG specification automatically handles bidirectional text ( for composing a combination of English and Arabic text, for example ), vertical text ( as Chinese was historically written ) and characters along a curved path ( such as the text around the edge of the Great Seal of the United States ).

It was announced on 8 December 2010 that Google Image Search would also begin indexing SVG files.

On 28 January 2011, it was discovered that Google was allowing Image Search results to be restricted exclusively to SVG files.

Konqueror was the first browser to support SVG in release version 3. 2 in February 2004.

Internet Explorer, up to and including IE8, was the only major browser not to provide native SVG support.

Prior to v3. 0, Firefox Mobile 4. 0b2 ( beta ) for Android was the first browser running under Android to support SVG by default.

KSVG was first developed in 2001 by Nikolas Zimmermann and Rob Buis ; however, by 2003, it was decided to fork the then-current KSVG implementation into two new projects: KDOM / KSVG2 ( to improve the state of DOM rendering in KHTML underneath a more formidable SVG 1. 0 render state ) and Kcanvas ( to abstract any rendering done within khtml / ksvg2 in a single shared library, with multiple backends for it, e. g., Cairo / Qt, etc.

Although it used SVG as its native file format ( including some extensions to hold metadata ), it was not intended to be a full implementation of the SVG standard.

As a result of these submissions, a new W3C working group was created, which produced Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ).

* SVG, an XML-based graphics description language primarily developed for the World Wide Web

SVG has been in development since 1999 by a group of companies within the W3C after the competing standards Precision Graphics Markup Language ( PGML ) – developed from Adobe's PostScript – and Vector Markup Language ( VML ) – developed from Microsoft's RTF – were submitted to W3C in 1998.

* Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ) ( a specification for two-dimensional vector graphics developed by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ).

1 & 2 ( published by SVG Distribution ), World Heroes Gorgeous ( Published by SNK Playmore Corp., developed by: Alpha Denshi Co., Ltd. ( ADK ), SNK Corporation, and known as World Heroes Anthology in the US ), and the SNK Arcade Collection vol.

Hypermedia applications may be developed on embedded devices for the mobile and the Digital signage industries using the Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ) specification from W3C ( World Wide Web Consortium ).

WebCore is a layout, rendering, and Document Object Model ( DOM ) library for HTML and SVG, developed by the WebKit project.

It is also possible to add support for new shapes by writing simple XML files, using a subset of Scalable Vector Graphics ( SVG ) to draw the shape.

Other approaches, such as individual frames served by AJAX, or SVG images may be animated via JavaScript or SMIL.

The SVG specification is an open standard that has been under development by the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) since 1999.

A much more print-specialized subset of SVG ( SVG Print, authored by Canon, HP, Adobe and Corel ) is a W3C Working Draft.

Neither mobile profile includes support for the full DOM, while only SVG Basic has optional support for scripting, but because they are fully compatible subsets of the full standard, most SVG graphics can still be rendered by devices which only support the mobile profiles.

In addition, SVG defines and elements where authors may also provide plain-text descriptive material within an SVG image to help indexing, searching and retrieval by a number of means.

The use of SVG on the web is still limited by the lack of support in older versions of Internet Explorer ( IE ) which ( as of June 2012 ) is the second most widely used browser, behind Chrome.

Many web sites that serve SVG images, such as Wikipedia, also provide the images in a raster format, either automatically by HTTP content negotiation or by allowing the user directly to choose the file.

* Google Chrome Frame from Google can support all web elements supported by WebKit, including SVG 1. 0 and partially SVG 1. 1.

SVG images can be produced by the use of a vector graphics editor, such as Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator, or CorelDRAW, and rendered to common raster image formats such as PNG using the same software.

Software can be programmed to render SVG images by using a library such as librsvg or Batik.

SVG images can also be rendered to any desired popular image format by using the free software command-line utility ImageMagick.

SVGT 1. 2 includes some features not found in SVG 1. 1, including non-scaling strokes, which are supported by some SVG 1. 1 implementations, such as Opera, Firefox and WebKit.

Support for SVG may be limited to SVGT on older or more limited smart phones, or may be primarily limited by their respective operating system.

Most Sony Ericsson phones beginning with K700 ( by release date ) support SVG Tiny 1. 1.

The W3C explicitly recommends SMIL as the standard for animation in SVG.

* SVG 1. 0 became a W3C Recommendation on 4 September 2001.

* SVG 1. 1 became a W3C Recommendation on 14 January 2003.

** SVG Tiny and SVG Basic ( the Mobile SVG Profiles ) became W3C Recommendations on 14 January 2003.

* SVG Tiny 1. 2 became a W3C Recommendation on 22 December 2008.

* SVG Full 1. 2 has had a W3C Working Draft in process for years, but now will be dropped soon in favor of a SVG 2. 0.

On 5 January 2010, a senior manager of the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft announced on his official blog that Microsoft had just requested to join the SVG Working Group of the W3C in order to " take part in ensuring future versions of the SVG spec will meet the needs of developers and end users ," although no plans for SVG support in Internet Explorer were mentioned at that time.

Internet Explorer 9 beta supported a basic SVG feature set based on the SVG 1. 1 W3C recommendation.

* W3C SVG page specifications, list of implementations

* W3C SVG primer W3C Primer ( draft ) under auspices of SVG Interest Group