I seem to recall that Tavmjong addressed this in a blog entry, back when the decision was made to push gradient mesh into 0.92. Let's see if I can find the link....
Here's the one about SMIL: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1262
Here's the one about gradient mesh: http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1554
Hhmm, that's not what I was thinking of. But I can't seem to find it. Maybe it wasn't his blog.... [banging head - arrgggh!] It must have been a mailing list thread.... You could probably use the dates of those blog posts to narrow down a search of the list archives, and find that thread. Sorry I don't have time to search just now.
I seem to recall that they were just thinking about not supporting gradient meshes though. Did you see some definite decision about it? I also thought removing SMIL was decided, so maybe you have some new info that I haven't heard yet? Or maybe I just had a misunderstanding?
All best, brynn
-----Original Message----- From: Victor Westmann Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 10:05 PM To: Inkscape-Devel ; inkscape-user Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Yesterday was SMIL and today is Mesh Gradients
Hi fellow inkscapers,
I was amazed to read that inkscape already has Mesh Gradients (since version 0.92) just like Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator got this exact same feature in the version 8 (released in 1998). 20 years ago.
But it seems that Mesh Gradients will be removed from the SVG 2.0 specification. My question is WHY?
That made me really sad and wondering: isn't there anything we can do to prevent that from happening? Can we make a petition or talk to Mozilla/Chrome/Opera/Vivaldi browser so they can implement this and this feature, as soon as it gets traction, to be kept in the 2.0 spec of SVG technology?
Ideas anyone? Is this too unrealistic or we can do something about it?
I remember google chrome almost removed SMIL feature from Google Chrome but then the feature got traction and started being used more and more... so they kept it.
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