- From: Antoine Quint <ml@graougraou.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 17:14:33 +0100
- To: "Sigurd Lerstad" <sigler@bredband.no>
- Cc: "Jim Ley" <jim@jibbering.com>, <www-svg@w3.org>, "Patrick Schmitz" <cogit@ludicrum.org>
Hi Sigur, >> As I understand, like with any element, if the "begin" attribute has a >> negative value, the media will be started by the offset specified. >> This >> remains to be checked as I don't have an implementation on my machine >> that implements this (ASV6 seems not to). I copied Patrick Schmitz, he >> should know (I may very well be talking nonsense here)... > > What about the clipBegin attribute from SMIL It is not supported in SVG as far as I know. SVG is just a host language for SMIL Animation and does not have the same feature. Likewise, the newly-introduced <audio> and <video> elements are SVG elements, not SMIL. > Using a negative begin would require you wrap the media element in > another > time container, and set the begin value of when you really want to > start the > media on the time container instead of on the media element itself. In SVG, there is no need to wrap in another time container, offset times are relative to document begin. See SVG 1.1 spec [0]: "For SMIL Animation, this describes the element begin as an offset from an implicit syncbase. For SVG, the implicit syncbase begin is defined to be relative to the document begin. Negative begin times are entirely valid and easy to compute, as long as there is a resolved document begin time." Antoine [0] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/animate.html#TimingAttributes -- Antoine Quint <aq@fuchsia-design.com> W3C SVG Working Group Invited Expert SVG Consulting, Teaching and Outsourcing Fuchsia Design <http://www.fuchsia-design.com/>
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