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WebCGM Current Status

This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document. For related introductory information, see: Graphics.

Completed Work

W3C Recommendations have been reviewed by W3C Members, by software developers, and by other W3C groups and interested parties, and are endorsed by the Director as Web Standards. Learn more about the W3C Recommendation Track.

Group Notes are not standards and do not have the same level of W3C endorsement.

Standards

2010-03-01

WebCGM 2.1

translations · errata

WebCGM 2.1 specification refines and completes the features of the major WebCGM 2.0 release.

2007-01-30

WebCGM 2.0

translations · errata

WebCGM 2.0 Recommendation adds a DOM (API) specification for programmatic access to WebCGM objects, and a specification of an XML Companion File (XCF) architecture, for externalization of non-graphical metadata. WebCGM 2.0, in addition, builds upon and extends the graphical and intelligent content of WebCGM 1.0.

2001-12-17

WebCGM 1.0 Second Release

errata

WebCGM 1.0 Recommendation specifies a profile of the ISO Computer Graphics Metafile standard (ISO/IEC 8632:1999), tailored to the requirements for scalable 2D vector graphics in electronic documents on the World Wide Web.

Group Notes

1997-06-18

Use of CGM as a Scalable Graphics Format

This is a sample short description for this specification; over time we will replace this description with a real one.