[Timesheets LC comment] General Comments

Dear SYMM WG-

The SVG WG has reviewed SMIL Timesheets 1.0, W3C Working Draft 10 
January 2008, http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-timesheets-20080110/ .

We are very interested in SMIL Timesheets, and are pleased by the 
functionality that this specification provides.  We believe that this 
has a lot of potential in a set of well-defined and common use cases, 
specifically photo galleries and slideshows, which are increasingly 
being presented on the Web; the functionality this specification 
provides will make it much easier to author such content.

While we are sympathetic to moving forward quickly to meet market needs, 
and support the approach that this technology lays out, however, we 
don't believe this specification itself is in a state suitable for 
Candidate Recommendation.  Most obvious are the large sections stricken 
through, and there are numerous areas where the normative requirements 
are not clear, and several grammatical errors.  We feel that once these 
matters are cleared up, though, the specification will be very useful.

It does seem mostly focused on XHTML, in general; SVG can be used for 
the same use cases, so we would like you to please include SVG examples 
similar to the HTML ones.

Finally, while we understand that this is a simplified subset of SMIL 
functionality meant to be immediately implemented in browsers with a 
solid market case, we are concerned that it may in places be too simple 
for what will be desired, particularly in the areas of transitions and 
navigation, and encourage you to lay the groundwork for future extensions.

We have several specific comments and suggestions to follow.  To make it 
easier for you to address our comments, we have split them into 
individual emails by types or sections.

Regards-
-Doug Schepers, on behalf of the SVG WG

Received on Saturday, 1 March 2008 22:41:47 UTC