Re: SMIL comments

Fcc: sent/2000

Nick,

> It would also be an immense advantage to be able to
> 'move' regions using screen xyand z vectors. 

I agree. SMIL Boston supports animation of SMIL attributes, see:

http://www.w3.org/TR/smil-boston/smil-boston-animation.html

This is technique could also be used for animating region coordinates.
      
> Another absolute necessity to SMIL's viabilty is the possibilty to
> change specified region content on demand without having to reload the
> whole screen.

You're right, and this is fully supported in the current public WD of
SMIL-Boston, see the sections on interactive timing and the excl
element:

http://www.w3.org/TR/smil-boston/smil-timing.html

Regards,

	Jacco

Received on Friday, 15 September 2000 05:08:30 UTC