This document lists the features supported by the TinyLine SVG viewer.

Copyright © 2002 Andrew Girow. All rights reserved.
The TinyLine home page is located at : http://www.oocities.org/tinyline/

Changes in the TinyLine SVG Toolkit 1.1

The major advance over the previous version 1.0.1 is that TinyLine now supports pixed point coordinates and declarative SMIL 2.0 Basic Profile animations. TinyLine now supports modification of Tiny SVG graphics through Tiny Object Model which allows dynamic updates to SVG documents in response to user events and animations of graphical elements.

Document Structure

TinyLine supports the <svg> , <title>, <desc> <defs> and <metadata> elements as defined in SVGT.
TinyLine currently does not support <use> element.
TinyLine supports the JPEG and GIF formats on the <image> element.
The <switch> element is not supported.

Styling

TinyLine does not support CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
In order to simplify parsing TinyLine uses presentation attributes and property inheritance rules.

Coordinate Systems, Transformations and Units

Coordinate systems in TinyLine are fixed point numbers as well as angles scales and other attributes. The finite useable coordinate range is defined by the scope of signed 16-bit integers.

TinyLine supports 22.8 and 15.15 fixed point numbers.

TinyLine supports nesting of transformations. The types of transformations that are allowed are generic transformation matrices, or simple operations such as rotation, scaling, skewing, and translation.

Shapes

TinyLine supports all SVGT/SVGB path commands, except the elliptical arc curve command ("A"(absolute) and "a"(relative)).
It also supports the basic shapes (rectangles, circles, ellipses, lines, polylines, and polygons)

Text

TinyLine represents text with Unicode characters. It supports the SVGT <text> element.

Color

TinyLine supports colors defined by 'color' property in sRGB color space using '#FFFFFF' notation , and 16 color keywords defined in HTML.

Fonts

In order to use fonts across platforms TinyLine supports SVG fonts with glyph outlines expressed using the "d" attribute on the <glyph> element.
TinyLine doesn't use system fonts.

Interactivity

SVGT content can be interactive (i.e., responsive to user-initiated events) by utilizing the Tiny Object Model elements:

Animation

TinyLine supports the subset of SMIL 2.0 Basic Profile animations: In the animateMotion element I followed the SMIL 2.0 Basic Profile definition:

The animateMotion element will move an element along a path. The path can be described in either of two ways:

From my point of view the implementation of mpath element is not practical for mobile devices at least in Java.

References

[Mobile SVG]
Mobile SVG Profiles: SVG Tiny and SVG Basic Tolga K. Capin, editor, W3C, W3C Candidate Recommendation 30 April 2002 See http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile
[SMIL20]
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.0) Specification.W3C Recommendation. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/smil20/
[SVG 1.0]
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.0 Specification, Jon Ferraiolo, editor, W3C, 9 September 2001 (Recommendation). See http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/
[SVG 1.1/2.0 Requirements]
SVG 1.1/2.0 Requirements Document, Dean Jackson, editor, W3C, 3 August 2001. See http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2Reqs
[SVG 1.1]
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Version 1.1 Working Draft, Dean Jackson, editor, W3C, 15 February 2002. See http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-SVG11-20020215/

Appendix A: Element Index

Element TinyLine 1.1
a
animate
animateColor
animateMotion
animateTransform
circle
definition-src
defs
desc
ellipse
font
font-face
foreignObject
g
glyph
hkern
image
line
metadata
missing-glyph
mpath
path
polygon
polyline
rect
script
set
solidColor
style
svg
switch
text
title
use
vkern

Last modified: Friday, July 19, 2002
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