There has always been interest in animation editing in Inkscape but there has never been a developer who has had enough interest, skill, and time to do it.
I fall under the interested category. I have wanted to bring animation into Inkscape for many years now. I even wrote an extension
https://github.com/nathanjent/inkscape-animation-extension
The extension allows me to create animations using layers in Inkscape. This is far from ideal as every change I make to the SVG document using the extension framework has to be reloaded into Inkscape when the extension completes. When doing 50+ frames(layers) it really struggles.
Recently, I have given up development of the extension to focus on learning to develop Inkscape directly and hopefully some day help implement the animation features myself. However, like Tav said, I lack both the skills and the time.
It would be sad if support for SMIL in SVG is dropped before I get the chance to animate in Inkscape.
Any advice to take me from "I took a college course on C++ once" to "Inkscape Developer" would be appreciated.
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
On 31 May 2015 at 20:29, Brynn <brynn@...3133...> wrote:
Thanks for your comments Tav. You said:
IE never supported it... that is why it never caught on on big websites.
But in my research, I found this
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/SVGAnimations.htm#SMIL
No, that says IE/ASV, meaning Internet Explorer with Adobe SVG Viewer. Which is a plugin like the Adbove Flash Plugin and isn't native support.
We tend to say the browser supports something if it doesn't require a plugin to show the content.
Which is why we can say browsers support video /now/ with html5, but not before with flash.
Martin.
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