- From: Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 17:40:51 -0400
- To: David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net>
- Cc: Brian Birtles <bbirtles@mozilla.com>, public-fx@w3.org, www-style@w3.org, www-svg <www-svg@w3.org>, Bob Hopgood <frahopgood@gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:58 PM, David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > I'm a bit confused (still). In looking through the document, it looks as though > almost everything that looks like "traditional" animation (in terms of the 15 > year old thing that people used to call a "W3C Standard" -- I finally understand > W3C's use of the word "recommendation") has been replaced by JavaScript calls. > I've been too busy developing content to try to digest the document properly. > I realize developing content now is a most precarious thing, but I figure we > might have a few years until everything breaks. Don't panic: I doubt there is any intention to break anything that works now. This... > " The animation features in SVG 1.1 are defined in terms of SMIL Animation > [SMIL-ANIMATION]. It is intended that by defining SVG’s animation features > in terms of the Web Animations model, the dependency between SVG and > SMIL Animation can be removed." as I read it anyway, is a proposal to *swap out the implementation* of the existing animation features of SVG 1.1, not to take them away. Instead of being a declarative shorthand for SMIL, these features are now a declarative shorthand for Web Animations. Note also this sentence in the introduction | The Web Animations model is intended to *provide the features necessary* | for expressing CSS Transitions [CSS3-TRANSITIONS], CSS Animations | [CSS3-ANIMATIONS], and SVG [SVG11]. emphasis mine. zw
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