RE: <animateColor>

Hi David,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-svg-request@w3.org [mailto:www-svg-request@w3.org] On Behalf
> Of Chris Lilley
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 October 2010 8:27 AM
> To: ddailey
> Cc: www-svg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: <animateColor>
>
> On Tuesday, October 12, 2010, 2:26:51 PM, ddailey wrote:
>
> d> What does <animateColor> give us that <animate> doesn't?
>
> At this point, it gives nothing besides compatibility with content that
> uses it.
>


As far as I can tell, the 'color-interpolation' property applies to <animateColor> but does not indicate that it applies to <animate>. Note: this is highlighted in Mozilla bug tracker pointed out in Roberts email. Hence, more appealing colour transitions could be achieved using <animateColor> and setting 'color-interpolation' property to linearRGB.

Not sure if there is a way to set the color interpolation on <animate>. Unless there is something I've missed. Alex, Chris?

Cheers,
Anthony

> Originally, SVG just had animateColor (from SMIL) and animate (from
> SMIL, which could animate unitless scalar values, or space separated
> lists of unitless scalar values.
>
> The smil folks were mainly looking at the lexical representation, so
> even #3F7 seemed like a non scalar value and certainly mediumPapayaWhip
> looked nothing like a scalar.
>
> SVG, partly as a result of comments, extended animate to allow
> animation of attributes and properties which are, in fact once you
> understand them, lists of scalars. In other words, a benefit of
> integrating SMIL deeper into the host language of SVG was that it 'knew
> about' some attributes.
>
> So #56F7C9 and rgb(12, 57, 98) and mediumPapayaWhip and currentColor
> and inherit are different lexical forms which at the end of the day
> evaluate to a triple of red, green and blue unitless scalar values,
> which SMIL-in-SVG can then happily animate.
>
> That was rather later in the development of SVG though, and by then we
> already had animateColor so it was not removed.
>
> d> I can't tell if the spec requires it,
>
> It does, although this was a later development in SVG and we kept
> around animateColor as well. Its also clearer in 1.1 than 1.0, clearer
> in 1.2T than 1.1, and clearer again in 1.1SE.
>
> d> but all browsers seem to allow <animate
> d> attributeName="fill" values="purple;plum;papayawhip"  ...etc...>
> just fine.
> d> Is it just out of the kind hearts of the browsers that this works or
> does
> d> the spec require it?
>
> The latter, plus the desire to not needlessly break content that uses
> it.
>
>
>
> --
>  Chris Lilley   Technical Director, Interaction Domain
>  W3C Graphics Activity Lead, Fonts Activity Lead
>  Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
>  Member, CSS, WebFonts, SVG Working Groups
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