Re: SMIL 2.0 animation article

Here's a quote from the MS site.
The time2 behavior is available as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 only in the 
Microsoft® Win32® platform.

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This isn't an article on smil2.0, it's an article on microsoft's custom extension of it. 
And it ONLY runs on IE 5.5, which doesn't sound to OPEN to me, how about all you?

Why does microsoft insist on creating custom extensions to open standards and 
then attempt to call them open standards?

We can't even get a common implementation of SMIL 1.0, let alone 2.0, and yet 
again, Microsoft decides to rewrite everything for it's own purposes.

Sounds like their 'open' scalable vector format too...

Sheesh.

Companies need to stop inventing new 'standards' and start using the ones that are 
out there (or implementing them correctly (HINT HINT) for once).

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Mike Wuetherick
Technical Director
Chiselmedia


Subject:        	SMIL 2.0 animation article
Forwarded by:   	www-smil@w3.org

> Here is an article on SMIL 2.0 animation and its usage with HTML
>  
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/behaviors/animation.asp
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/behaviors/animation.asp> 
>  
> It includes examples that you can run on Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or
> newer.
>  
> -Pablo
>

Received on Monday, 5 February 2001 16:16:20 UTC