Re: Summary of animation discussion

Hello Dean,

Since I've never heard of the acronym SVGA outside of monitor resolutions,
can you clarify whether it is the same thing as the SVG + the SMIL subset
defined within SVG 1.1?

Thanks,
Jeff

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com> wrote:

> A few people asked that this taskforce message be forwarded to both the
> general CSS and SVG lists.
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> > From: Dean Jackson <dino@apple.com>
> > Date: 4 November 2010 10:36:57 PM AEDT
> > To: public-fx@w3.org
> > Subject: Summary of animation discussion
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> > Here's a very brief summary of the discussion about animations at the
> meeting today:
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> > We are going to try to describe a single model for animation for Web
> content. The model will merge SVGA and CSS Animations functionality as much
> as possible.
> >
> > The model can then be represented by two syntaxes - SVGA and CSS.
> >
> > We'll also try to define an API for the model, exposed to JavaScript.
> This will allow things such as:
> >
> > - querying the current animation state of an element
> > - starting/stopping/pausing animations (scrubbing wasn't mentioned, but
> is important)
> > - creating an animation and applying it to an element
> > - possibly a way to define animation step timing to a document, similar
> to Mozilla's requestAnimationFrame
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