RE: Is SVG 2 still under development?

Hi, I'm really not the right person to answer, being nowadays, just a =
lurker here, but if I mis-speak, others are sure to holler.=20

I think the answer is yes the SVG spec is still under development, and =
just a few days ago, I saw activity here from some of those known to be =
closely involved in the development.=20
A few years ago they decided to move most of the development activity, =
and perhaps even discussion to a place harder for old people like me to =
find  -- like a blog or a wiki or a thermocouple -- who knows all the =
modern terminology these youngsters have (I'm just teasing, btw, but I =
really do forget the name of the thingy where the stuff lives now).

But more importantly, for your needs, SVG is now baked into all major =
browsers (including most minor ones), and that includes support for =
"static SVG" as well as scripted stuff, and in *most* cases, support for =
non-scripted animation (of the sort, previously known as SMIL). It also =
has baked-in support from  many applications (like Illustrator and =
Inkscape) and it's not going away there. Also, it's a standard for =
vector graphics as used by Wikipedia (and in many cases, the SVG graphic =
is considered preferable by them to bitmaps, for obvious reasons). As =
someone who used to be deeply involved in SVG, I see no reason at all to =
suspect support for it will disappear from anywhere!=20

The folks actually building it are relatively few in number, which I =
think explains the reason you didn't get a reply to your previous =
question. And they tend to be quite busy.=20
The W3C has this to say:

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The mission of the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Working Group is to =
develop and maintain SVG.

Chair: Dirk Schulze
W3C Staff Contact: Chris Lilley
Scheduled to end: 2021-03-31
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And according to their web page, the W3C is hiring, so I don't think =
they're going away.


Cheers
David Dailey
Retired (http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/)



-----Original Message-----
From: Bryan Dunphy [mailto:[email protected]]=20
Sent: Friday, May 8, 2020 11:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Is SVG 2 still under development?

I=E2=80=99m developing a (probably static - no scripting support =
available) SVG plugin for my primary multi-device, cross-platform =
development environment and need to know if I should be concerned with =
it as far as future support is concerned.