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FXG is an xml graphics file format being developed by Adobe, as well as handling the capbalities of Adobe Flash FXG is planned as a graphics interchange format for cross-application file support. Mark Anders noted on his blog that the specification was not being developed for inter-operability between Adboe products and third-parties, the specification is being designed to refactor a middle-aged file format for fidelity rather than elegance; Mark Anders noted that the first aim the specification was designed for was componentized graphics

Capabilites
It is noted on the specification website that "The FXG rendering model follows very closely the Flash Player 10 rendering model and exposes all graphics capabilities of the Flash platform as well as offering expandable support to accommodate future capabilities of the Flash Player "

Relation to other xml formats
The xml model for FXG is based as closely as possible as SVG. There was some early misconceptions that the FXG file format was designed to be a standard for raster graphics file inter-change, this has since been demonstrated to be incorrect

Interoperability
The FXG format is being created to allow Adobe products to share a common file format. The nature of the file format was questioned on the Create Project mailing list, where an employee of Adobe mentioned that it was a company policy to document file formats so that third parties could write and read these formats ; this exchange was met with a mixture of question, distrust and hostility.