animation performance from Tobias Reif on 2002-05-01 (www-svg@w3.org from May 2002)

From: Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com>
Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 22:03:29 +0200
To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com
CC: www-svg@w3.org
Message-ID: <3CD04A11.508@pinkjuice.com>

Hi,

I think it would be great to have performance hints, just like rendering 
hints.

In

<!ENTITY % PresentationAttributes-Graphics

we have

shape-rendering
  (auto |
   optimizeSpeed |
   crispEdges |
   geometricPrecision |
   inherit)
text-rendering
   (auto |
    optimizeSpeed |
    optimizeLegibility |
    geometricPrecision |
    inherit)

Parallel and in addition to that I think we need someting like

<!ENTITY % animPerformanceAttrs
  "(auto |
   verySmooth |
   smooth |
   lowProcessorUsage
   inherit
   )">

"verySmooth" specifies that the player should set the highest possible 
framerate, inside an appropriate range, which also depends on the 
available resources (CPU speed, CPU usage, ...)

"smooth" should provide a good compromise between fluid animation and 
resource usage.

"lowProcessorUsage" (a better name should be chosen) assigns lowest 
priority to the fluidity of motion, and optimizes towards very low 
resource usage.

Tobi

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Received on Wednesday, 1 May 2002 16:04:19 UTC