THE W3C (WORLD Wide Web Consortium) on Tuesday issued its Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 1.1 and Mobile SVG Profiles as formal W3C Recommendations. The proposals are intended to provide a format for extending multimedia to cell phones and pocket computers. SVG 1.1 separates SVG capabilities into reusable building blocks, and SVG Mobile re-combines them in a way optimized for mobile devices, according to the W3C. In SVG 1.0, the Document Type Definition (DTD) was a single, monolithic unit, while in SVG 1.1 the DTD is divided up into smaller, more flexible functional building blocks that can be reassembled in different ways for different purposes, the W3C said. The W3C has used the SVG 1.1 building blocks to make two profiles or subsets of full SVG: SVG Tiny, for multimedia-capable cellphones such as the recently announced 3G units, and SVG Basic, for handheld and palmtop computers, according to the W3C. Technology Industry