Which means features like gradient meshes and hatches would be axed from SVG 2 and moved to Web Incubator Community Group (WICG).

Therefore browser vendors are not spending their resources on adding those features.

So there is not enough content using those features to justify implementation in browsers.

There are not enough implementations of SVG 2 to test proposed new features.

Very few people actually contribute to the evolution of the SVG specification entire companies dropped off de facto or are about to drop off the charter de jure.

While we encourage you to read it in its entirety, for the record, here is a quick summary: What’s up with that?ĭuring the Inkscape’s board meeting, Tavmjong Bah shared a write-up on the status of SVG 2 based on recent happenings around the SVG Charter.

And yet SVG 2 might arrive sometime in the future without quite a few useful features that have been already developed and tested.

Between SVG 1.1 W3C Recommendation and SVG 2 in its current form, people have raised kids and sent them off to the college.

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