Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2 Draft

Looks like the biggest change is a move towards CSS3-like styling across the board, including many new styling options previously excluded from SVG, as well as reworking how some things were done to be more consistent with HTML/CSS. For example, they've removed defined clip/mask elements, and you now define those in the CSS.<p>Overall, I like the changes; seems like it won't be as much of a leap to figure out how to do things in SVG vs CSS, and we've got a bunch more styling options for various elements. Here's a link directly to the changlog:<p><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-SVG2-20130409/changes.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-SVG2-20130409/changes.html</a>

I am not sure if I am more upset at this not providing any native means of word wrap, or IE not supporting foreignObject. Seriously, a large use case for using SVG on the web is data visualization -- where you will often find yourself displaying labels which need to wrap to a given size in order to display cleanly. Add to this the necessity to move other text around based on the height of other text elements and you're looking at a mess of ugly alignment code.

I'm glad to see Erik Dahlström of Opera on the list of editors. He is really active in stackoverflow[1] often pointing out clarification on tough SVG questions. I'm sure he is aware of the difficulties us average web developers face when approaching SVG.<p>[1]: <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/users/109374/erik-dahlstrom" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/users/109374/erik-dahlstrom</a>

It's nice to see that SVG is getting serious about custom filter effects[1], and with any luck, compositing[2].<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-filter-effects-20121025/#feCustomElement" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-filter-effects-20121025/#feCust...</a><p>[2]: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-SVG2-20130409/masking.html#SimpleAlphaBlending" rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-SVG2-20130409/masking.html#Simp...</a>

Still no support for multiple pages? Is it possible to vote for such feature?<p>I'm really glad to see progress on SVG and hope this will finally make Mozilla to support SVG Tiny Fonts. This bug on their Bugzilla is 11 (!) years open:<p><a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490" rel="nofollow">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490</a>

It would be awesome if it supported audio, music, mouse coordinates, realtime keyboard input, and variables.<p>And if it already does: then something must be wrong because I would have expected many awesome SVG games on Newgrounds if it worked well.