cedric GEMY wrote:
may be i'm not the best to answer this question, but as far as i know, SMIL is not part of SVG, and inkscape aims to be a SVG editor.
That's somewhat true, somewhat not. :-) The W3C SVG-DOM spec classes actually are dependent on the SMIL classes, in addition to 5 or 6 other W3C DOM specs. So we have stubs for that.
Yes, SMIL is one of 3 ways to animate SVG: 1: Have a DOM tree and throw SMIL packets at it, 2: Declarative (SVG tags) animation 3: Scripting
Each would have its own purpose. SMIL for streaming. Declarative for statically-defined animations, and scripting for interactivity. Some people craving Flash-like animation would want 1. Engineers like me want 3. (animated schematics)
And recently there is a new spec, REX, which is an XML spec for transmitting document change events over the wire. So maybe we should make that 4. This is good for collaborative editing, and shared SVG is actually its target.
bob