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Re: Temporal extensions to HTML

From: Jin Yu <jinyu@pa.dec.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 10:42:08 -0800
Message-Id: <9712041842.AA12653@eagle.pa.dec.com>
To: symm@w3.org, www-multimedia@w3.org
Cc: f.rousseau@opengroup.org
>We have identified several problems with the current version of SMIL:
>
>1. There are only two temporal composition relations: sequential and
>parallel. They are useful, but not sufficient for complex
>presentations.

For complex presentations, you can use the `begin' and `end' attributes.
By applying those two attributes on any objects (atomic or composite),
you can build a complicated DAG within the enclosing <par>. For casual
relations, we have the `endsync=last|first|id' attribute on <par>.

Jin

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