- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:57:51 +0200
- To: public-fx@w3.org
Brian Birtles: >The real concern is that currently we have two competing models for >animation which is not a good state of affairs for the Web platform. >Myself and others have been considering how to harmonise the two models >but some implementors expressed concern about investing time in >implementing SMIL when CSS Animations already appears to have wider >adoption. Because decorative CSS animation is just a draft currently and content animation with SMIL/SVG is specified and used for years, I think, we can safely assume, that there are only experimental decorative projects outside using CSS animation currently and a huge amount of content using SMIL/SVG. And currently the CSS model is too simple to cover all the use cases SMIL/SVG covers, therefore even if converted to XML syntax it will often be no alternative. For a few use cases however SMIL/SVG has no practical answer. The simple solution is to improve SMIL/SVG animation in a backwards compatible way. After this is done, one surely can find a solution like the current CSS syntax (or a more simple, usable approach) or something like the timesheets approach to integrate SMIL/SVG animations for decorative purposes in CSS as well. This approach will avoid inconvenieces and questions about the general competence of the related working groups by improving something instead of annoying many ;o) Olaf
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