- From: Patrick Schmitz <pschmitz@microsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 13:40:59 -0800
- To: "'mike@chiselmedia.com'" <mike@chiselmedia.com>, "'www-smil@w3.org'" <www-smil@w3.org>, Pablo Fernicola <pablofe@microsoft.com>
Whoa nelly! Peel yourself off the ceiling there, Mike. IE 5.5 uses a behavior (time2) to implement the XHTML+SMIL profile of SMIL2. This is not a custom extension, but rather part and parcel of SMIL 2. All the syntax for animation and timing are shared and consistent with the SMIL 2.0 language profile, but are simply integrated with XHTML (that was a major reason for modularizing SMIL functionality). IE 5.5 is one of the first commercially available implementations of SMIL 2. Perhaps that is what was confusing you? Many of the other commonly used "SMIL" browsers are still supporting SMIL 1 (although that is rapidly changing). The IE 5.5. implementation is not perfect, but the interoperability of IE5.5 animation and animation support in Adobe's SVG browser has already been demonstrated (again not 100%, but these are early implementations). The interop testing for IE and the other implementations of SMIL 2 syntax and semantics is ongoing. We are all committed to developing and supporting a common, consistent language and semantics for declarative multimedia for the Web. I can understand your frustration with consistent support for SMIL, but I think you might want to do a little more homework before you lay all the blame at MSFT's doorstep. Nevertheless, thanks for looking into the support! Patrick Patrick Schmitz Researcher - Telepresence and Ubiquitous Media Microsoft Bay Area Research Center http://research.microsoft.com/~pschmitz/ > -----Original Message----- > From: mike@chiselmedia.com [mailto:mike@chiselmedia.com] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 1:18 PM > To: 'www-smil@w3.org'; Pablo Fernicola > Subject: Re: SMIL 2.0 animation article > > > Here's a quote from the MS site. > The time2 behavior is available as of Microsoft(r) Internet > Explorer 5.5 only in the > Microsoft(r) Win32(r) platform. > > <beginrant> > > 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). > > </endrant> > > 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 > > > >
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