- From: Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:23:12 +0100
- To: public-xg-app-backplane <public-xg-app-backplane@w3.org>
Guys, I've got the strawman implementation of SMIL in JavaScript available for testing, if you go to <http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/jsambulant/test/ > you'll see two HTML documents with embedded SMIL islands. These documents are also part of the regular Ambulant distribution (but then without the HTML wrapper, and without the various hacks I've had to apply to make things work). Note that this implementation is very much a strawman: I've hacked things up just to get a quick prototype to work: only QuickTime is used for audio/video rendering, and the scheduler implementation is less-than-minimal (par/ seq/begin/dur only). Only images, external text and limited audio/ video are supported as media types. The samples seem to work for everyone who tried them with Safari on a Mac. They seem to work in IE on Windows, but I don't get audio (even though I have QuickTime installed), but my boss does get audio in IE. Also, I get nothing in Firefox, but other people do see things working in Firefox, including audio. Sometimes, especially in Opera, you have to reload the file before it plays back correctly. One colleague even heard audio on Linux (where presumably something stepped into the place of QuickTime, which isn't available on Linux). In other words: if you want to see these demos you should try a couple of browsers and platforms, and you may get lucky. -- Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman
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