Re: SMIL DOM

There is also a SMIL DOM implementation by http://www.x-smiles.org

When implementing SMIL DOM, it might be useful if SMIL DOM can 
maintain the "time graph model" (see the SMIL 2.0 specification), so 
that one can tell what elements are active during a certain of time. 

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On Tuesday 30 July 2002 9:02 am, Pablo Fernicola wrote:
> If you look at the bottom of this page,
> http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/aut
>hor/behaviors/reference/time2_entry.asp, under Methods you will see
> one implementation of a DOM for SMIL 2, released with Internet
> Explorer 6.  The purpose of this was to make it easier to create
> SMIL based authoring tools.
>
> -Pablo
>
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Dan Dennedy [mailto:DDennedy@digitalbang.com]
> 	Sent: Mon 7/29/2002 7:15 AM
> 	To: Sigurd Lerstad; www-smil@w3.org
> 	Cc:
> 	Subject: RE: SMIL DOM
>
> 	> From: Sigurd Lerstad
> 	>
> 	> I read in the past that the SMIL dom was discontinuted
> 	> because of lack of interest. I was interested and had started
> 	> implementing it. It's really annoying that it's gone, because
> 	> as an implementor, it's really helpful to have defined
> 	> interfaces to follow instead of inventing interfaces on your
> 	> own.
> 	>
> 	> I really hope that you can put it back up, even if you stop
> 	> working on it for a while...
>
> 	It's still available (for now) at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/smil-boston-dom/. I suggest you download the
> PDF in case the page really does goes away and expires from
> Google's cache.
>
> 	I too am working on an implementation, for the open source video
> editor Kino:
> 	http://www.schirmacher.de/arne/kino/
>
> 	We use SMIL in an unusual way--as a post-production project file
> format, and not as a playback language. We are just getting
> started, and will probably only use this for some ideas. So far, we
> only use seq and video elements as a "playlist," but we need to
> expand now. Consequently, we need to more formalize our classes.

Received on Thursday, 1 August 2002 12:52:02 UTC