- From: SHIBATA Seiki <seiki@flab.fujitsu.co.jp>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 12:48:36 +0900
- To: Philipp.Hoschka@sophia.inria.fr
- Cc: www-smil@w3.org
Philipp Hoschka wrote: > > Can a SMIL presentation include other SMIL presentation? > > Nothing in the SMIL spec prevents this > > >It seems possible, if referrences to SMIL document are supported in > >`Media Object Element'. But two SMIL players (GRiNS and RealPlayer G2) > >do not support SMIL document as a media type. > > I too think that it is a very useful thing to have, and am > disappointed that nobody seems to support it. > > For an author, splitting a SMIL presentation into several different > SMIL parts allows modularizing the presentation, reuse > chunks of it in another context and make the whole thing more > readable. Absolutely. Reusing clips for making big and/or complex clips is a background of my question. The inclusion of SMIL in SMIL is like the FRAMEs in HTML. I worry about the same problem as the FRAMEs. Jakob Nielsen described the problem with FRAMEs in his AlertBox <URL:http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9612.html>. // seiki
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