Re: SVG animations without SMIL

David,

The SVG WG if I remember correctly nearly got things right. At one stage we
had fill="red" being bound tightly and taking precedence over the styling.
So if you styled the circle blue and had <circle fill="red".. then it would
be red.

Jon went off to talk to the Adobe engineers who said if we did that there
would be several months delay in the Adobe plugin and at the time we were
anxious to get the implementation as it was needed to  move the Draft to
the next stage so we did what the engineers said which was have it at the
other end of the cascade. It was a poor decision that comes back to haunt
us now.

At least we got the path description right. That is clearly content and CSS
cannot restyle the path description.

Moving animation content to CSS would be a big mistake. Bigger than the
first one ;-)

Bob