Recommendation

Date: Jan. 14, 2003
Link: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile/
Source Author or Organization: W3C

This Recommendation is part of the modularized approach for specifying the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) language, which uses XML syntax to define resolution-independent 2D graphics and animation.

The document describes two mobile profiles that extend SVG 1.1 for display of vector graphics on handheld devices, known as Mobile SVG. Mobile SVG is comprised of SVG Basic (SVGB), for somewhat restricted mobile devices (currently suitable for cell phones), and SVG Tiny (SVGT), for very restricted mobile devices (currently suitable for PDAs).

A key advantage of Mobile SVG on these devices is its ability to scale to the size of a small display, for example a mobile phone or PDA, without loss of information. Anticipated applications include animated picture messaging, mapping in the field with global positioning transceivers, ecommerce, entertainment and viewing engineering drawings in the field.