- From: Erik Dahlstrom <ed@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:46:47 +0100
- To: "'Dailey, David P.'" <david.dailey@sru.edu>, "David Dailey" <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org
On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:30:24 +0100, David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net> wrote: > Hi Erik and all, > > Thanks for the opportunity to explain this in a bit more detail. Many of > my comments were rather cryptic, I realize. > > In short, the proposal is to extend animateMotion so that it may effect > other pairs of attributes of objects than just their x and y positions. > > What I was getting at here is the fact that declarative animation has > limited ability to control the way in which attributes change values. > > Either, in the case of <animateMotion>, there is the ability to control > the x and y positions of SVG elements through a path: a function mapping > time to x and to y --from that it is natural to affiliate the x and y > positions of points to follow that path. ... The WG has discussed this proposal, and it was resolved that SVG 2 will support path-based animations of pairs of attributes. If you have any specific use-cases in mind other than the examples you've already posted in this thread please let us know, to ensure that the use-cases will be covered when this requirement is addressed. Cheers -- 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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