AW: SMIL and HTML+TIME

IMHO you should rethinkig HTML + TIME on a XML Basis to keep SMIL smiling

Henning Timcke
Ideen Werft22 GmbH

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von:	Jacco van Ossenbruggen [SMTP:Jacco.van.Ossenbruggen@cwi.nl]
Gesendet am:	Donnerstag, 22. Oktober 1998 09:43
An:	Patrick Schmitz
Cc:	www-smil@w3.org
Betreff:	Re: SMIL and HTML+TIME

Patrick Schmitz wrote:
..

> > XML+Anything
> >
> > The superimposing of TIME constructs on HTML could be applied to
> > superimposing other construct sets on documents of other XML DTDs as
> > well.  Defining this type of superimposing is a problem on a higher
> > level that applies to many formats.  Solving this problem is 
> > currently
> > the domain of several W3C activities.  If/when the problem is 
> > solved,
> > SMIL would be a more appropriate DTD for putting through the
> > superimposing mechanism than TIME.
> >
> [Patrick]  I am not clear on what you are saying.  If SMIL is aligned with
> the activities you allude to, then HTML+TIME should be as well.  If not,
> then there is a more basic problem at hand.  Perhaps you could explain a bit
> further what you mean?

[Jacco] What I tried to say is that HTML+TIME uses elements from SMIL in 
HTML, and that this can be seen as just a special case of the problem of
mixing elements from multiple DTDs in general. Solving this problem is 
probably behind the scope of the HTML and SYMM groups, since it involves 
issues (partly) addressed by XML namespaces and XML architectures 
(a la XLink),  mixing HTML/XML etc.  

..

Patrick Schmitz wrote:

> 
> The modularization that I proposed divides the functionality into 4 areas:
> 
>   - Timing markup
> 
>   - Media elements and synchronization markup
> 
>   - Conditional delivery controls (switch and test attributes)
> 
>   - Layout

[Jacco] Can you explain the difference betweeen timing and
synchronization markup?

Jacco

Received on Thursday, 22 October 1998 13:47:00 UTC