Hi everyone,
I wonder why animation and interaction features for inkscape doesn't go in the direction of the W3C standard for these tasks: SMIL
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/ http://www.smilguide.com/guide/tutorial/learning-to-smil
Maybe I got it wrong?
Yours: Néstor
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.
Nestor Diaz wrote:
Hi everyone,
I wonder why animation and interaction features for inkscape doesn't go in the direction of the W3C standard for these tasks: SMIL
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/ http://www.smilguide.com/guide/tutorial/learning-to-smil
Maybe I got it wrong?
Yours: Néstor
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
On May 8, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Nestor Diaz wrote:
I wonder why animation and interaction features for inkscape doesn't go in the direction of the W3C standard for these tasks: SMIL
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/ http://www.smilguide.com/guide/tutorial/learning-to-smil
Maybe I got it wrong?
SVG has a few ways to deal with animation. These are covered in section 19.1 of the 1.1 SVG spec.
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/animate.html#Introduction
SMIL is explicitly addressed there. DOM and scripting are two other ways, and SVG's animation elements are another.
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