On 13-Jan-2009, at 21:58 , Mark Birbeck wrote: > > Hello all, > > I notice in the minutes a reference to creating a JavaScript SMIL > implementation. > > Can I just flag up that such a library already exists: > > <http://ubiquity-smil.googlecode.com/> Mark, I'm aware of your Ubiquity-smil project, but the last time I looked at it it basically only implemented SMIL Animation. I'll be looking at it again in the next week (or two), along with looking at ubiquity itself and other promising projects (suggestions welcome!) as I lay out a plan for what we'll be doing in the next few months. My aim is to come end up with a package that has a reasonable subset of a full SMIL 3 scheduler, and hopefully be able to use that to implement all three of (1) SMIL 3 islands in HTML documents, (2) XHTML +SMIL and (3) SMIL Timesheets. But: that's the initial plan, the first few weeks will be spent on a feasibility study (and on learning JavaScript:-) so there's a good chance that the plan is quite a bit more modest in a few weeks time:-) In my experience, the main headache with a SMIL player is the timegraph implementation: this has to be global, it is highly dynamic and it has two-way interaction with everything else. But we've implemented a couple of those already over the years, so by now we have a reasonable idea of what doesn't work:-) -- 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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