Re: Dropping angle-bracket syntax for animation from Brian Birtles on 2011-08-02 (public-fx@w3.org from July to September 2011)

From: Brian Birtles <bbirtles@mozilla.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:52:55 +0900
To: Cameron McCormack <cam@mcc.id.au>
CC: public-fx@w3.org
Message-ID: <4E376687.8030000@mozilla.com>

Thanks Cameron for your feedback.

(2011/08/02 9:50), Cameron McCormack wrote:
> I think at this point, we should be mandating CSS support for SVG
> viewers anyway.

Ok, I wasn't sure if that was on the table for SVG 2 or not.

For SVG tools that aren't attempting to do round-trip authoring I think 
the CSS support requirement would be easier to meet if CSS can be dealt 
with as a pre-processing step. For example, run the input through a tool 
like SVG scour[1] and convert CSS syntax to presentational attributes.

Unfortunately that won't be possible if there's no XML syntax for 
animations. Tools will be forced to provide their own workarounds which 
increases complexity.

Brian

[1] http://www.codedread.com/scour/

Received on Tuesday, 2 August 2011 21:20:38 UTC