- From: Jon Ferraiolo <jferraio@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 11:39:52 -0700
- To: andreww@netscape.com (Andrew Wooldridge)
- Cc: svg <www-svg@w3.org>, fritz@iceinc.com (Colin Moock)
Andrew, I thought I would provide a quick update on SVG in general and Adobe's plans for SVG in particular, since some things have changed since Colin's last posting on June 2. Since June 2, the SVG working group has indeed sorted out some issues regarding animation and interactivity. As you can see from the July 30 public draft spec (http://www.w3.org/1999/07/30/WD-SVG-19990730/), SVG has pretty sophisticated animation as part of its grammar. These animation features have been developed in close collaboration with the SYMM working group, which is looking at defining common XML animation capabilities for XHTML, SMIL, SVG and other future XML languages. SVG will offer some SVG-specific advanced animation features not available in XHTML and SMIL. Included in the animation feature set are attributes beginEvent and endEvent, which allow animations to be initiated by UI events such as mouse clicks. Thus, it will be possible to make SVG documents have both animation and interactivity without having to use scripts. (The actual attribute names might get changed before SVG goes final.) The animation features are very general. Basically, you can animate most attributes and properties on any element. You can even animate filter effects (but don't try this on your Palm Pilot). Lots of other SVG details have been worked out in recent weeks. Review the Change History section of the July 30 spec to see what we have been up to. Also, we just had a face-to-face meeting, so a couple of capabilities which aren't documented yet in the July 30 draft will be documented in our next draft, which hopefully will appear pretty soon. Regarding Adobe, Colin's article is still pretty much on target. So far, we have demonstrated Adobe Illustrator generating SVG and a browser plugin that views SVG. Adobe has stated publicly (since Sept. 98) that we will be supporting SVG across our product line and that we will make our SVG browser plugin available for use with legacy browsers. Jon Ferraiolo SVG editor Adobe Systems Incorporated At 04:53 PM 8/4/99 -0700, Andrew Wooldridge wrote: >http://www.moock.org/webdesign/svg/articles/svg-adobe.html > > >-- > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >- Andrew Wooldridge - Opinions expressed are my own - >- andreww@netscape.com - http://people.netscape.com/andreww/ >- ICQ: 6345881 - Find It at http://dmoz.org - >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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