W3C's announcement: http://www.w3.org/2008/12/smil3-pressrelease.html
Press coverage: Wall Street Journal: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/SMIL-30-Advances-Standard-Synchronized/story.aspx?guid=%7BA0336409-96B2-4286-A68F-F8B23C040BA3%7D and also http://in.sys-con.com/node/764284 -------------------- >From a (very) quick look at the thing, a couple of things caught my eye: 1. a section on smilText -- looks pretty interesting 2. the animation section includes some stuff pertaining to <mousefollow> which would seem to eliminate some often redundant scripting 3. there is some stuff on transitions (like wipe and iris and snake) -- For example: <seq> <img src="butterfly.jpg" dur="5s" ... /> <img src="eagle.jpg" dur="5s" ... /> <img src="wolf.jpg" dur="5s" ... /> <img src="seal.jpg" dur="5s" ... /> </seq> I always thought those things were a bit too cutesy to warrant standardization (the class of possible transitions from scene 1 to scene 2 is huge, so why codify any trivial subset?), but some of the syntax they advance is interesting, as I suppose is the set of "transition primitives", which to some extent begin to look like filter primitives. Lying somewhere between filters and SMIL is some very fertile territory for 2.5 + dimensional standards development. It reminds me a bit of the <contour> and <replicate> tags for SVG that I've proposed in http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/IG/wiki/A_place_to_gather_suggestions_and_discussion_of_new_features David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
