RE: SVG SMIL news from Google

Hi Alex,

 

Yes, and thanks for reminding us of the community spirit that helped get SVG as a standard “standardized” and thanks to the Microsoft folks who helped move it along!

 

Let’s all motivate support for web animations!

 

David

 

From: Alex Danilo [mailto:adanilo@google.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2016 11:17 AM
To: David Dailey
Cc: www-svg; Philip Rogers
Subject: Re: SVG SMIL news from Google

 

Hi David,

 

As with all web things, the community matters and it was the community that convinced IE to add SVG a few years back, and so at least for now the deprecation is (as I said at TGW last year), like Winston Churchill:-)

 

In any case, SVG in <img> definitely should be supported, the lack of scripting mitigates most security worries.

 

In other news, FF48 shipped Web Animations which is great news for folks wanting things to animate on a parallel thread to avoid jank on the main thread, so perhaps you should start exploring that API (admittedly JS, but I'd hope we can someday find a declarative syntax that folks would be happy implementing).

 

Alex

 

On 17 August 2016 at 15:46, David Dailey <ddailey@zoominternet.net> wrote:

This just out from Google (thanks to one of the SVG enthusiasts at Ello for letting me know).

 

Excerpt: “We value all of your feedback, and it's clear that there are use cases serviced by SMIL that just don’t have high-fidelity replacements yet. As a result, we’ve decided to suspend our intent to deprecate and take smaller steps toward other options.”

 

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/5o0yiO440LM%5B126-150%5D

 

Delighted to hear this, Phil and Alex!

 

I thought that others here might be interested to know.

 

Now, if as Amelia points out[1], folks can work on convincing places like FB, Google Plus, Twitter and Wikipedia that SVG in <img> adds value to their platforms – and is safe--, the web will become a richer place.  Am I correct in concluding from what I read at the links you provided, Amelia, that SVG in <img> is, as much as anything on the web, safe right now?

 

Smil(es)

David

 

[1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2016Aug/0030.html