Graphics on the Web
What is W3C Doing?
Please see the W3C Graphics Activity statement to find out what W3C is currently doing and has already done in the area of Web Graphics, including SVG, WebCGM Profile, and PNG.
Formats
There is no limit in the Web specifications to the graphical formats that can be used on the Web. You just need a MIME type so that the format is labelled correctly for transfer across the Web, and so that a suitable viewer (if one exists) can be located at the other end.
In practice, certain formats are more widely understood than others; certain formats are more suited to one type of graphical data than another; so you should make an informed choice about what format to use.
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) |