Hi David, The flicker seems to occur because the new element has been created at the origin, rather than at the point of transition along the path.
Cheers, Francis --- In [email protected], "David Dailey" <ddailey@...> wrote: > > For several years now I've enjoyed doing little things like > > > > http://granite.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/SMILscript5.svg > > > > in which an animated object traverses a path (by letting its x and y > coordinates over time given by the x y of the path as traversed ) and then > when the SMIL is done it triggers script which reinvents the object > (metamorphosis) into something new and then restarts the animation. > > > > The above works in Opera, Firefox and IE/ASV but not in Safari or Chrome (as > their versions of webkit do not yet seem to support SMIL-script nor > script-SMIL/beginElement) nor IE9 . > > > > The problem is that, about a third of the time, while the animation is > stalled for a split second (to allow JavaScript to think a moment), a small > ghost of the image pops up in the upper left hand corner of the screen > before it collects its instructions from SMIL. I've tried changing the > visibility of the object as in > > > > http://granite.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/SMILscript5a.svg ( actually the attempt > seems to help reduce the frequency at least in some browsers from perhaps > 1/3 to maybe 1/5, or am I imagining) > > > > but it still creates that annoying flicker on apparently random iterations. > Any way you can think of to expunge the flicker? > > > > TIA > > David > ------------------------------------ ----- 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: [email protected] [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/
