- From: Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@expway.fr>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:33:03 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org
Sorry about forgetting to put a subject on this post, I'm resending
it so that it gets picked up by the archives correctly.
On Nov 10, 2005, at 13:12, Robin Berjon wrote:
> Dear Bjoern,
>
> this is a response to your comment at:
>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2005Apr/0081.html
>
> The playbackOrder attribute is only a hint to the user agent to
> indicate whether the author believes that seeking back in the
> timeline is likely to produce meaningful results or not. Setting it
> to "all" does not guarantee that when seeking back in time the same
> animation will be replayed since DOM manipulation may have altered
> the tree, and certainly does not require that the tree be reverted
> to the state in which it was at a given point in time.
>
> When setting it to "forwardOnly" the author indicates that she
> doesn't believe seeking backwards will produce a useful effect,
> probably because DOM manipulations have largely altered parts of
> the tree required in past animations or because the discard element
> has been used to remove them entirely. It is therefore recommended
> that the user agent expose that information through its user
> interface.
>
> Thank you for your thorough review, please let us know shortly if
> this does not address your concerns,
--
Robin Berjon
Senior Research Scientist
Expway, http://expway.com/
Received on Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:32:58 UTC