Re: Interactive Declarative Animation in <img>

On 04/16/2015 07:33 AM, David Dailey wrote:
> Here is a very simple example [1] with CSS-animated SVG taken from
> Wikipedia's article on SVG animation [2] and embedded in HTML <img>.  The
> image displays at different sized in IE vs. Chrome and FF. It does not
> animate in Firefox
[...]
> My questions here are:
> 1. are the cross-browser idiosyncracies with CSS-animated animation in <img>
> just browser bugs, and if so, whose bugs are they?

The Firefox lack-of-animation here is indeed a bug, probably one of the
following:
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=908634
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1121478

> 2. Is it true that script will always be required for certain animation
> effects for those browsers that do not support SVG/SMIL? The question may
> have implications toward future college acceptance requirements: SAT Math
> scores and the like. 

To the extent that there exist SVG attributes that aren't animatable
with CSS animations: yes, I think you're right about this.

Received on Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:42:16 UTC