- From: Dr. Olaf Hoffmann <Dr.O.Hoffmann@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:07:02 +0100
- To: www-svg@w3.org, david.dailey@sru.edu
Hello, looks interesting. I use similar techniques combined with animation created by PHP mainly, because then there is no need for user sided script interpretation, one cannot assume as author and it avoids to care about script interpretation problems in different viewers of course. For example for me your examples have no display at all. But of course, this server sided scripts blow up the source code with a lot of redundant information. Something like this might help a lot to create much smaller files without the complication of any scripting. But concerning the proposal, I think it will help to define the meaning of the attributes, properties and elements in detail for better understandability. Especially it is not obvious, how the interpolation works. Cubic spline interpolation between two values will be pretty fine for many applications. For gradient like structures of course the other question is, whether this method is effective for the viewer or is it possible to get arbitrary gradients with another method with less CPU stress? Another important issue is the compatibility with animation. Because animation uses list item separation with semicolon, this should never appear elsewhere, therefore this part of your proposal is surely suboptimal, especially because it excludes, that these structures are animatable themselves. Many of the documents I have with such troops of elements are animated as well, therefore I think, this is an important requirement and I would not be very clever to create incompatibilities with SMIL, because this excludes later improvements, even if for the current proposal the structures are not considered to be animatable. Olaf
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