- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 02:46:17 +0200
- To: Patrick Schmitz <pschmitz@microsoft.com>
- CC: "'Tobias Reif'" <tobiasreif@yahoo.com>, www-svg@w3.org, Debbie Newman <debbien@microsoft.com>
Patrick Schmitz wrote: > > You can embed the adobe plug-in into IE (5.0 or 5.5) which supports > HTML+TIME. The 5.5 version supports the HTML integration profile of SMIL 2.0 > (as of the most recent working drafts - IE 5.5 shipped before SMIL 2.0 was > complete). Well, its good to see the support, and catching up to the final SMIL 2.0 is what dot releases are for .... > This allows you to easily declare audio on the page. Yes. Using SMIL and SVG together is the best way to do this. SVG is an XML namespace- youget the best use out of it when it is combined with other namespaces. Think lego bricks. If all you have is red 2x3s, there is a limit to what you can build. > Unfortunately, it does > not provide good synchronization with any animation in your SVG, because of > the plug-in boundary. Right, the plugin interface intruduces some well-known problems such as DOM integration, loss of fragment identifiers in URLs, and so forth. Native support for SVG would bring much greater benefits and allow rich combinations of XML namespaces all in the same document, with good integration and a single SMIL timeline controlling everything. -- Chris
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