- From: <herve_foucher@ds-fr.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 11:08:27 +0200
- To: Patrick Schmitz <pschmitz@microsoft.com>
- cc: www-smil@w3.org, muriel.jourdan@inrialpes.fr, symm@w3.org, tenkate@natlab.research.philips.com, Lloyd.Rutledge@cwi.nl
Patrick Schmitz, Microsoft, wrote: > Example 6 - > > Sorry, but this is really funny. No one implements the supposedly > correct behavior, of copying the element. Soja implements what we > think is the only sensible behavior (this is also what HTML+TIME > does for this syntax). Yes, we had a thread on the www-smil@w3.org mailing list a few weeks ago before "SOJA Cherbourg" was released. We went to the conclusion that the time line should be: ----------------------------------- Quoted from Sjoerd Mullender (sjoerd@oratrix.nl), Thu, 29 Apr 1999 16:28:44 +0200 Sjoerd is the author of the SMIL Specifications concerning "repeat". ----------------------------------- The intention is that the code <seq repeat="3" begin="3s"> <img src="foo1" dur="4s" region="reg1" /> <img src="foo2" dur="4s" region="reg2" /> </seq> is equivalent to <seq begin="3s"> <seq> <img src="foo1" dur="4s" region="reg1" /> <img src="foo2" dur="4s" region="reg2" /> </seq> <seq> <img src="foo1" dur="4s" region="reg1" /> <img src="foo2" dur="4s" region="reg2" /> </seq> <seq> <img src="foo1" dur="4s" region="reg1" /> <img src="foo2" dur="4s" region="reg2" /> </seq> </seq> If we change this a little to make it even clearer, if in the example you had par instead of seq, you would get <seq begin="3s"> <par> <img src="foo1" dur="4s" region="reg1" /> <img src="foo2" dur="4s" region="reg2" /> </par> <par> <img src="foo1" dur="4s" region="reg1" /> <img src="foo2" dur="4s" region="reg2" /> </par> <par> <img src="foo1" dur="4s" region="reg1" /> <img src="foo2" dur="4s" region="reg2" /> </par> </seq> ----------------------------------- For more, see: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-smil/1999AprJun/thread.html And the "[SMIL] A question" thread. Herve FOUCHER, HELIO
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