- From: Harry Underwood <raynenamibia@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:25:05 -0400
- To: www-smil@w3.org
- Message-ID: <b74ecafb0903201625j701ac886o5b9b9c71192ecf23@mail.gmail.com>
Hi, I wanted to post an idea for future SMIL attributes that would allow for further control of a presentation's progress and playback, if this is the place to do such. My idea conceives of tying SMIL's timing mechanism with the usage of intrapage hyperlinks to allow for two options of intermediate progression control over a presentation: "time-based" and "textsection-based". Time-based progression control would link the presentation proper with an explicit summation of the total time of the presentation's progression. Textsection-based progression control, another optional method that can be used in conjunction with time-based control, would allow for the presentation to be controlled using area links. Finally, a stationary progress slider could be constructed out of markup (be it XHTML, SVG or your run-of-the-mill user interface markup language with CSS styling) and can tie into both the time and textsection properties of the entire animation. I imagine the syntax being something like the following: <play fulltime="75s" begin="Begin" end="End" indicator="indicator.svg" progresscolor="red" ><video>.....</video></play> I think that this should be accomplishable through markup rather than forever relying only upon scripting to get a proper progress control method for markup presentations (particularly SVG slideshows and animations) and multimedia. Harry
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