Re: SMIL and Javascript

On 10/4/03 8:15 PM, "J.R. van Ossenbruggen" <Jacco.van.Ossenbruggen@cwi.nl>
wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 4 2003 Ryan Henderson wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Not so sure this is the correct list to post to
> 
> I think you've found the right list.
> 
>> but anyway here goes.
>> 
>> I have been developing a product that synchonises media with a Quick Time
>> movie (currently it uses QT chapter tracks and Href tracks). The media can
>> include Text, Images, other Movies, and Web Sites. Now pretty much all of
>> the media here can be displayed using SMIL. However to integrate SMIL into
>> our existing product easier we would like to use pre developed java script
>> calls.
> 
> My personal opinion is that SMIL was not designed with scripting high
> on the agenda...
> 
>> So in a nutshell my question is: At predetermined times within a SMIL
>> presentation can java script calls be made? For example we have a call to
>> display a web site in a new window, this may be made at say 2minutes and 31
>> seconds in to the movie...
> 
> I think you have two problems here.
> 1) Does your SMIL player support javascript?

Well we were initially looking at using IE as our existing delivery
environment is the web. It obviously support java script.


>  I do not know any that does, but if you've developed your own SMIL player,
>  the second question is:
> 2) How do you encode it in SMIL?
> 
>  If you want to stick to the SMIL REC, the only way I can think of
>  is using the <ref> element with the appropriate MIME type
>  attribute, and than using a data: URI scheme:
> 
>     <ref type="application/javascript"
>          src="data:jscript.function.call()"/>
> 
>  Note that in the example above, I "forgot" to escape the string
>  after "data:", but after proper escaping, elegance is not the first
>  word that comes to mind...
> 
>  You could also implement a SMIL extension using your own namespace:
> 
>  <myext:script xmlns:myext="http://www.mycompany.com/smil/script/extension">
>    jscript.function.call()
>  </myext:script>
> 
> I hope this helps,
> 

Thanks, hopefully over the next month I will be investigating the issue in
more depth and I will let you know how I go.

Received on Thursday, 10 April 2003 22:25:47 UTC