This is good news, even if it's only a stay of execution for now. A note to all, a few weeks back the SVG WG resolved [1] to publish a proper working draft of the stand-alone SVG Animation Elements specification [2]. This replaces the animation chapter from SVG 1.1, instead of including an animation chapter in the core SVG 2 spec. There are a few technical clean-ups that need to happen first (the spec markup currently doesn't play nice with the new W3C stylesheets) but that is the first step towards moving forward on modernizing SMIL-style SVG Animations and making them fully compatible with the Web Animations framework. Philip, in your note on the forum you mention that next steps include "Proposing removal of pieces of SMIL that don’t enjoy widespread use." We'll keep an eye out for new issues tagged "SVG Animations" in the SVGWG repo [3]. However, if the Chrome team is devoting resources to identifying specific issues with SVG Animations, I'm sure that Brian Birtles would appreciate any help in cleaning up that spec and polishing it off; he has understandably put in on the back burner this past year since the original Chrome deprecation announcement. ~ABR [1]: https://www.w3.org/2016/08/04-svg-minutes.html#resolution02 [2]: https://svgwg.org/specs/animations/ [3]: https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues
Received on Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:13:08 UTC