- From: Erik Dahlstrom <ed@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 14:39:51 +0200
- To: "Paul Williams" <pwilliams@infotrustgroup.com>, "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
- Cc: "Doug Schepers" <schepers@w3.org>, "Charles Pritchard" <chuck@jumis.com>, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>
On Thu, 12 May 2011 01:02:03 +0200, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: ... > Fair enough, but I think a more interesting question is why Web > developers > aren't using SVG for applications where it already seems like a great > fit, > e.g. > http://www.animatable.com/demos/madmanimation/ Yes, I can admit that I was a bit surprised to see that done with CSS, but then again, a nice demo is a good way to sell your new and shiny CSS animation app, right? ;) And speaking of which, the lack of publicly available svg animation tools is a thing that surely doesn't help the situation for SVG. I've tried Synfig Studio[1], but the SVG support is rather incomplete and buggy[2]. I don't know of any other freely available tools for animating svg that are suitable for designers and people that don't want to mess with the SVG source, or learn to use some javascript animation library. I have seen some commercial tools, but I wouldn't could them as being freely available unless you could at least download and try them out before buying. Here are some thoughts from one of our developers that tried to convert a short animation to SVG (by hand): http://my.opera.com/emoller/blog/2011/05/09/bubuy-flash So, where are the animation tools? [1] http://synfig.org/ [2] http://synfig.org/forums/search.php?keywords=svg&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sk=t&sd=d&sr=posts&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search -- Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed
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