- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:23:59 -0500
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:36 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote: > > Based on discussions in response to previous proposals in this and other > forums, I have written a new proposal for offline web app APIs. [...] A couple weeks ago the SMIL 3 last call working draft crossed my desk; it has a State section... [[ The modules in this section provide a mechanism whereby the document author can create more complex control flow than what SMIL provides through the timing and content control modules, without having to go all the way of using a scripting language. One way to provide this is to allow a document to have some explicit state (think: variables) along with ways to modify, use and save this state. In addition, the mechanisms that the SMIL BasicContentControl and CustomTestAttributes modules provide for testing values are limited: basically one can only test for predefined conditions being true (not for them being false) and there is a limited form of testing for multiple conditions with "and" being the only boolean operator. Application areas include things like quizzes, interactive adaptation of presentations to user preferences, computer-aided instruction and distant learning. ]] section 15. SMIL 3.0 State http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/smil-state.html I'm not sure how or whether that overlaps with HTML design sketches in functionality; I'd appreciate it if a few people would take a look and report their findings... "The Last Call review period for this document extends until 14 September 2007. The public is invited to send comments or report errors on this document. Please send them to the public mailing www-smil@w3.org - (public archives) including the prefix'[SMIL30 LC comment]' in the subject line." -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-SMIL3-20070713/ -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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