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Subject: [MT35101] 3. Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) HOMEPAGE
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TIME: Complete this section within 20 minutes
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SVG was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium ("W3C" or "W3") as an
open alternative to proprietary vector graphics formats. Under the
direction of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, the
W3C is responsible for the majority of open technologies on which the
Web is built (such as HTML, HTTP, URLs, PNG graphics, XML, etc.). The
W3C creates "Recommendations", not official standards (unlike standards
organizations such as ISO/IEC, Web3D Consortium, etc, which do create
international standards). Note that the W3C is located in Cambridge, MA,
in conjunction with MIT's Lab for Computer Science.

SVG 1.0 is now an official W3C Recommendation. While your
SVG Viewer download is taking place (as you wait for it to finish) 
visit and familiarize yourself with the SVG home page and the W3C 
home pages listed in tonight's class under the headings:

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 SVG home:
 World Wide Web Consortium ("W3C" or "W3") home:
 SVG falls under the W3C Graphics Activity domain:
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Skim each page spending a total of 15 minutes reviewing them (spend no
more than 5 minutes on each page), then proceed to the next 
section of this online course...

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Aaron E. Walsh  http://www.gridinstitute.com/people/aew/  617.350.7119
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