On Friday, December 16, 2005, 4:26:23 PM, david wrote: dd> At 09:34 AM 12/16/2005, Peter wrote:
>>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). dd> I've had similar sentiments. The Opera SMIL implementation seems dd> fine, but I really need the scripting. Opera 9 has both. dd> SMIL is so darn friendly and dd> easy that I underwent a couple of months of seeing just how much dd> JavaScript I could eliminate -- I was pleasantly surprised. I miss it dd> in Firefox. Yes, so do I. dd> SMIL is more machine independent since you don't have to calibrate dd> your setTimeout loops and your delta-x's and delta-y's and so forth dd> for machines with differing horsepower, :) and you don't have to decide on a 'frame rate' either. dd> but I have done some dd> comparisons which suggest (at least in ASV) the JavaScript animations dd> run a bit faster and smoother. See dd> http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/svg_filter_play.htm for dd> some experiments. Interesting. -- Chris Lilley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/2jUsvC/tzNLAA/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/
