- From: Joseph Brick <josephb@real.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 12:55:04 -0700
- To: Philipp Hoschka <Philipp.Hoschka@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: www-smil@w3.org
>> Can a SMIL presentation include other SMIL presentation? > >Nothing in the SMIL spec prevents this True that nothing in the SMIL spec prevents this, but we can't pretend that there aren't special issues with a SMIL media source that don't exist with, say, a video media source. Off the top of my head: * SMIL files contain a layout element. If I have two SMIL sources within the same <par>, each defining completely different layout, what should happen? * Can a <ref> in a nested SMIL file refer to a region defined by its parent file? There are certainly solutions for these (e.g., perhaps <head> is ignored in nested files), but they're not specified. Leaving these decisions up to each implementation is asking for trouble. -jeb At 02:37 PM 10/5/98 +0200, you wrote: > >On 05/10/1998, SHIBATA Seiki <seiki@flab.fujitsu.co.jp> wrote: >>Hi, >> >>I have a question. >> >> Can a SMIL presentation include other SMIL presentation? > >Nothing in the SMIL spec prevents this > >>It seems possible, if referrences to SMIL document are supported in >>`Media Object Element'. But two SMIL players (GRiNS and RealPlayer G2) >>do not support SMIL document as a media type. > >I too think that it is a very useful thing to have, and am >disappointed that nobody seems to support it. > >For an author, splitting a SMIL presentation into several different >SMIL parts allows modularizing the presentation, reuse >chunks of it in another context and make the whole thing more >readable. > >-Philipp Hoschka, W3C >
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