RE: Questions regarding animation requirements in UAAG 1.0

HTML+TIME is what MSFT calls the support for XHTML+SMIL in IE.  It is a
marketing term, not a standard (kind of like the "Dynamic HTML" moniker
for DOM and script support).

Unfortunately, personal commitments will keep me from attending the FtF
in Boston. However, Debbie Newman from MS will be there if you want to
talk about IE and HTML+TIME/XHTML+SMIL, and others in the group can also
discuss and explain our (SYMM's) animation support.

Thanks - Patrick

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Gunderson [mailto:jongund@uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:20 PM
> To: Patrick Schmitz; Ian Jacobs; Cohen, Aaron M
> Cc: clilley@w3.org; w3c-wai-ua@w3.org; dd@w3.org; 
> asgilman@iamdigex.net
> Subject: RE: Questions regarding animation requirements in UAAG 1.0
> 
> 
> Patrick,
> Thank you for your sending these demos to the user agents attention.
> 
> Is the "+TIME" part of the HTML+TIME label for the web site 
> part of the 
> SMIL or CSS specifications?
> 
> Will you be at the all working group meeting later this week 
> in Boston?
> 
> Jon
> 
> 
> At 09:17 AM 2/27/2001 -0800, Patrick Schmitz wrote:
> >You can do all this right now in IE 5.5.
> >
> >Here is a pointer to my personal demo page (only looks like 
> much in IE
> >5.5):
> >http://research.microsoft.com/~pschmitz/demos/H+Tdemos.html
> >
> >and for a demo of speed, see the orbit demo (first one on the page
> >above):
> >http://research.microsoft.com/~pschmitz/demos/orbit2.htm
> >
> >This includes binding to buttons (no script) for reverse, 
> fast forward,
> >slow forward and volume control (not that there is no script used in
> >this animation, even for the button controls). Everything is wired
> >declaratively. Note that the midi audio plays at all forward 
> rates, at
> >the correct speed but no pitch corrected. I have not yet 
> found an audio
> >or video decoder commonly used on the web that behaves well 
> with reverse
> >speeds (but the SMIL 2 model includes rules for graceful 
> degradation in
> >these cases).
> >
> >Even if you do not have IE 5.5 and so cannot play the 
> animation, you can
> >fetch it into the HTML browser of your choice and then view 
> the source.
> >I would be happy to answer further questions.
> >
> >If you are interested in speed animations in particular, we 
> should talk
> >about the model IE implemented, which is a VTR model rather 
> than a pure
> >DOM model (I can explain the differences if you care).
> >
> >Hope this helps - Patrick
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Ian Jacobs [mailto:ij@w3.org]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:02 AM
> > > To: Cohen, Aaron M
> > > Cc: Patrick Schmitz; clilley@w3.org; w3c-wai-ua@w3.org; dd@w3.org;
> > > asgilman@iamdigex.net
> > > Subject: Re: Questions regarding animation requirements 
> in UAAG 1.0
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I ran into Aaron here at the Sonesta hotel, and pursued the
> > > question of animation control for a few minutes. Aaron pointed
> > > me to the following resources:
> > >
> > > 1) The 'speed' attribute is defined in section 11.1.3 of the
> > >    time manipulation module of SMIL 2.0 [1].
> > >
> > >    The attribute defines the playback speed of element time.
> > >    Values can be negative, for playback in reverse. This suggests
> > >    that fast forward and reverse are also possible.
> > >
> > > 2) IE 5.5 may already implement this attribute (not 
> absolutely sure,
> > >    but they do implement the accelerate and decelerate 
> attributes).
> > >
> > > 3) One could specify "speed=.5" on the root time container element
> > >    and slow down a whole document by half. Or one could do this on
> > >    an element-by-element basis.
> > >
> > > 4) I'm not aware of players that let you do this today through the
> > >    user interface.
> > >
> > > So, this is starting to suggest to me our requirements 
> for animation
> > > control are covered by the SMIL 2.0 spec.
> > >
> > >  - Ian
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-smil20-20000921/smil-timemanip.ht
> >ml#TimeManip-accelerateSyntax
> >
> >--
> >Ian Jacobs (jacobs@w3.org)   http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs
> >Tel:                         +1 831 457-2842
> >Cell:                        +1 917 450-8783
> 
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