Nice animation! Adding the ability for Inkscape to reference external files would be a great asset. As well as external SVG files, external style files should also be supported. Tav On Sun, 2013-12-01 at 13:14 +0800, Jelle Mulder wrote: > Hello all, > > I for one applaud this incentive. It's a long standing desire of the whole > SVG community to have Inkscape support animation I think. > > I did a web design course in 2012 in which I made my design students > create a website in SVG using Inkscape, notepad++ and Opera 11. One of the > assignments was to add animation using SMIL and I made this simple example > of how to create a repeating frame based animation. It works in Opera 9.5 > - 12.16, but not in their Blink versions. Firefox works fine as well. > Blink has a nasty bug/regression/security issue? that prevents external > files to be <use>d. > > http://pjmulder.home.xs4all.nl/svg/exanples/frame_anim/anim.svg > > Based upon my experience teaching I would like to address the following > points. > > 1. One of the things it does which is currently not supported by Inkscape > is to use external SVG files. I would really be a great addition to the > functionality of Inkscape if it did. The new Symbol manager already opens > external files but then copies content from these file rather than linking > them. I'd love to see that as an option to link externally, much like we > do with bitmap images. It would make files a wee bit cleaner. There also > would need to be an option to collect all linked files into a single > whopper for portability. More difficult it would be but quite interesting, > to be able to disassemble files into multiple ones again. > > 2. SMIL is a really easily understandable format for all. ECMAscript is > unintelligible for the non coder, but I managed to teach each and every > student how to move objects around using SMIL. CSS is a work in progress > and to be honest I think it is an ugly way of doing anything really. It > always feels like engineering your graphics, much like Postscript editing > before the invention of Pagemaker, but then without knowing the context of > your objects. CSS is too abstract for most people. > > 3. If however the SMIL code is just plunked into the overall SVG graphics > file, the readability becomes zero. I therefore made them separate the > SMIL logic from the graphic content. This has two advantages, they could > easily edit the graphics content of their animation, reposition objects in > their scene files and all that without influencing the logic code. SMIL > also allows for editing the content at two levels. You can either edit the > resource file or the <use> > > 4. Based upon this I would suggest for animation there to be a project > file structure rather than single files. It would be useful for normal > Inkscape projects too as you often want to separate images from your files > rather than have them bloat the whole file and want to be able to use > placeholders and replaceable content. > > Regards, > > Jelle Mulder > > > > On Sun, 01 Dec 2013 06:24:30 +0800, > <inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net&gt; wrote: > > > Send Inkscape-devel mailing list submissions to > > inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > inkscape-devel-owner(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of Inkscape-devel digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: SMIL in SVG (Susan Spencer) > > 2. Re: Inkscape and SMIL support (Susan Spencer) > > 3. Re: SMIL in SVG (Martin Owens) > > 4. Re: Inkscape and SMIL support (Martin Owens) > > 5. Re: Inkscape and SMIL support (Susan Spencer) > > 6. Re: Inkscape and SMIL support (Susan Spencer) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 15:28:15 -0600 > > From: Susan Spencer <susan.spencer@...400...> > > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] SMIL in SVG > > To: Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> > > Cc: &quot;inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net&quot; > > <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net&gt; > > Message-ID: > > < CAFi3o2UOgK+AJFTm2g_DWhyK_m9ONQZmhtXb34STWegoTV+j_g@...401...> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Should IE's lack of support prevent Inkscape from incorporating SMIL? > > > > There should be some consensus on this. > >