RE: Agenda, 11 September 2014 SVG WG telcon

Hi all,

"* Handling of trailing semicolons in list attributes (values, keyTimes, keySplines, keyPoints, begin, end) (ed)"

Just one quick (and no doubt naïve) observation. If by trailing semicolons you mean things like values="0;5;3;" as opposed to "0;5;3" it was a bit counter-intuitive as a learner when I first started playing with <animate>. Not knowing what the spec had to say about it, I just observed what the browsers did, and those (few at the time) that implemented SMIL seemed to agree, so sometimes, if I recall correctly, I left the last semicolon in since it did what I wanted it to. So if you start fixing things to be more "intuitive" there may be the risk of breaking some content. Now, if you mean "0;5;3;;", that’s something different. Of course as people have pointed out "not many authors use SMIL anyhow", whence the conclusion "SMIL must not be good." Of course, there is a terrible fallacy in that argument, and I trust you all can recall the gist of my 139 missives on said theme.

Cheers
David

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Dahlström [mailto:ed@opera.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 4:18 AM
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Subject: Agenda, 11 September 2014 SVG WG telcon
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