- From: Daniel Weck <daniel.weck@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:02:30 +0000
- To: www-style list <www-style@w3.org>
On 18 Mar 2011, at 16:13, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > The biggest problem with SMIL is that it's not CSS. ^_^ It's a > different animation model that's only applicable to SVG (plus maybe > other languages that aren't really part of the web). It won't ever be > applicable to HTML. http://wam.inrialpes.fr/timesheets/ ;) > While we won't ever get rid of SMIL, given the weight of SVG 1.1 > content on the web, we can at least make it unimportant for new > authors to learn. FYI: SMIL is also used in EPUB Media Overlays, which admittedly isn't part of the web per-say, but it is an international open-standard that relies heavily on web technologies (XHTML5, CSS3, PLS, SSML, etc.). There are a few web-based EPUB reading systems, and desktop/mobile ebook reading apps often rely on a web browser component ... so SMIL is never too far from the web, really ;) http://epub-revision.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/build/spec/epub30-mediaoverlays.html Cheers, Dan
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