At 09:34 AM 12/16/2005, Peter wrote: >Are there currently SVG implementations other than >Adobe that support SMIL?
Chris Lilley responded to this already. >Does anyone want to share their opinion about whether >SVG animations should be coded using Javascript or >SMIL? Over the past 6 months, I have waffled from >Javascript to SMIL, and am leaning back toward >Javascript (because of lack of support for SMIL). I've had similar sentiments. The Opera SMIL implementation seems fine, but I really need the scripting. SMIL is so darn friendly and easy that I underwent a couple of months of seeing just how much JavaScript I could eliminate -- I was pleasantly surprised. I miss it in Firefox. SMIL is more machine independent since you don't have to calibrate your setTimeout loops and your delta-x's and delta-y's and so forth for machines with differing horsepower, but I have done some comparisons which suggest (at least in ASV) the JavaScript animations run a bit faster and smoother. See http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/svg_filter_play.htm for some experiments. (Apologies in advance that I haven't tried to get any of these to work in Firefox yet.) Certain kinds of animation like bouncing billiard balls around a table are, I think, beyond the scope of SMIL, but it is fun to think about future languages for declarative animation which might be a bit more dynamic than SMIL is currently. I suspect the folks who came up with SMIL are thinking fun thoughts since the entire philosophy is quite compelling. DD ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/.QUssC/izNLAA/TtwFAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- 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/ <*> 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/
