Okay -- I guess that makes sense. thanks.
David
----- Original Message -----
From: "Maciej Stachowiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ddailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Vladimir Vukicevic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [whatwg] Apple Proposal for Timed Media Elements
On Apr 5, 2007, at 4:53 AM, ddailey wrote:
I understand that some here have reasons not to be happy with SMIL,
but its implementation within SVG really is quite nice and
understandable. So far as I can see, the discontent with it stems
primarily from the fact SMIL seems to have alternative
specifications. Since the SVG implementation is the one which seems
to have met with fairly wide adoption, why not just converge with
the attribute set used there to control an animation?
Vlad's message is about Apple's proposed CSS properties, not DOM
attributes. SMIL is in the markup and so gives you no way to separate
presentation from content. The CSS properties would let you separate
time presentation of a <video> or <audio> element, or in theory an
<img> showing an animated image format or any other element that
could be interpreted as showing timed media.
So I don't think this competes directly with SMIL.
Regards,
Maciej
