- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 01:00:01 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Brian Birtles <bbirtles@mozilla.com>
- cc: www-svg@w3.org, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, adrianba@microsoft.com, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Brian Birtles wrote: > (2011/09/10 4:55), Ian Hickson wrote: > > I'm not closely involved in the SVG work. Can someone elaborate on the > > status of SVG Fonts and SMIL animation in terms of future plans for > > browser vendors? Are these features that are intended to be phased out? > > Mozilla is not planning to support SVG Fonts (as per [1][2][3]; > however the idea of embedding SVG Fonts in OpenType[4] has attracted > some interest including from Mozilla). That said, there was a resolution > that SVG 2 would mandate support for SVG Fonts to some degree.[5] > > SMIL Animation is up in the air at the moment. Microsoft have expressed > concern about implementing it, or at least a preference to prioritise > CSS Animations. There has been talk about harmonising the two > technologies but until that path is clear some browser vendors are > reluctant to invest further in SMIL. There are outstanding action items > to investigate some of the options here. > > [1] http://limi.net/articles/firefox-acid3 > [2] http://robert.ocallahan.org/2010/06/not-implementing-features-is-hard_03.html > [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490 > [4] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2011Jun/0042.html > [5] http://www.w3.org/2011/03/01-svg-minutes.html#item04 Thanks, that's very useful information. Can anyone from Microsoft, Apple, Google, or Opera comment further on this topic? -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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