Re: animateTransform has no default value for 'type'

2) So I guess that in an SVG 2.0 standard there would still be no way to do this because it is still SMIL?
In this case I think it might be better to let CSS do the animation because it allows for a much more concise code.


> On Jun 1, 2017, at 1:57, Domenico Strazzullo <strazzullo.domenico@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 1) Basically we have Firefox with the correct implementation versus the webkit with the wrong one.
> 
> 2) OK, but <animateTransform> being a SMIL animation element (hosted by SVG) is unique and cannot be re<use>d with different values. 
> 
> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 5:07 PM, Johannes Schoenke <johannes.schoenke@gmail.com <mailto:johannes.schoenke@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 1) I’m sorry, Firefox was the one I didn’t test. It appears like the default value is not implemented in Chrome, Opera, and Safari (IE/Edge I have no idea and honestly don’t care). That’s sad.
> 
> 2) That was not what I meant. Maybe I didn’t explain precisely enough. I'll give an example:
> I want this
> 
> <path d='M1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1Z'>
>   <animateTransform attributeName='transform' type='translate' dur='7s' repeatCount='indefinite' values='0,0;1,0;1,1;0,1;0,0'/>
> </path>
> <path d='M2 2 2 3 3 3 3 2Z'>
>   <animateTransform attributeName='transform' type='translate' dur='7s' repeatCount='indefinite' values='0,0;-1,0;-1,-1;0,-1;0,0'/>
> </path>
> 
> to be expressible as this
> 
> <g>
>   <animateTransform attributeName='transform' type='translate' dur='7s' repeatCount='indefinite'/>
>   
>   <path d='M1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1Z'>
>     <animateTransform values='0,0;1,0;1,1;0,1;0,0'/>
>   </path>
>   <path d='M2 2 2 3 3 3 3 2Z'>
>     <animateTransform values='0,0;-1,0;-1,-1;0,-1;0,0'/>
>   </path>
> </g>
> 
> So all the animation attributes which are identical for both <paths> I just want to have to write once.
> 
> 
> Hannes
> 
> 
>> On May 31, 2017, at 22:51, Domenico Strazzullo <strazzullo.domenico@gmail.com <mailto:strazzullo.domenico@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 1) The 'type' attribute of 'animateTransform' does have the default value of 'translate', since the specification says so. Firefox implements correctly and executes a translation if 'type' is not specified (lines 9 and 15 in the example below). Chrome doesn’t. You can report the bug with Chrome, but I'm not sure if they care any longer.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 2) Animations for a group of different objects (including nested groups) ARE definable for the group:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> <g>
>> 
>>   <set attributeName="visibility" to="hidden" begin="20s"/>
>> 
>>   <animateTransform attributeName="transform" type="skewX" from="90" to="0" begin="0s" dur="5s"/>
>> 
>>   <g>
>> 
>>     <animateTransform attributeName="transform" type="skewY" from="-45" to="0" begin="0s" dur="5s"/>
>> 
>>     <g id="tubes">
>> 
>>       <animateTransform attributeName="transform" type="scale" from="0" to="1" begin="0s" dur="5s" fill="freeze"/>
>> 
>>         <g id="hor1">
>> 
>>    <animateTransform attributeName="transform" from="150 750" to="150 150" begin="0s" dur="5s" fill="freeze"/>
>> 
>>    <use xlink:href="#left_cap"/>
>> 
>>    <use xlink:href="#right_cap" transform="translate(360 0)"/>
>> 
>>    <use id="t1" transform="scale(3.6 1)" xlink:href="#h_tube"/>
>> 
>>  </g>
>> 
>>  <g id="vert1">
>> 
>>    <animateTransform attributeName="transform" from="74 574" to="474 174" begin="0s" dur="5s" fill="freeze"/>
>> 
>>    <use xlink:href="#top_cap"/>
>> 
>>    <use xlink:href="#bottom_cap" transform="translate(0 125)"/>
>> 
>>    <use transform="scale(1 1.25)" xlink:href="#v_tube"/>
>> 
>>  </g>
>> 
>>         ...
>> 
>> </g>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> It is wise before making a suggestion literally, to ask or double-check, because if nobody replies then other readers might see it as a valid suggestion. Some changes to the spec in the past were introduced out of confusional debating where there was no need, without proper auditing.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Domenico Strazzullo
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Johannes Schoenke <johannes.schoenke@gmail.com <mailto:johannes.schoenke@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> I could not find anything about this in the mailing list, so I thought a share.
>> 
>> In the SVG 1.1 standard section 19.2.16, right at the beginning of ‘Attribute definitions’ it says about the ‘type’ attribute:
>> 
>> ‘… . If the attribute [type] is not specified, then the effect is as if a value of 'translate' were specified.’
>> 
>> This is not true.
>> If ‘type’ is not specified, nothing gets animated.
>> So it seems like ‘type’ has no default value.
>> 
>> Hope this helps.
>> 
>> Best wishes,
>> Hannes
>> 
>> 
>> P.S.: Suggestion for the next standard:
>> For ‘animateTransform’ and all related animation tags attributes like for example
>> 
>> attributeName='transform' type='translate' fill='freeze' dur=‘4s’ …
>> 
>> Should be definable for a group of different objects/animations. At the moment one has to write them for every single animation tag. Many animated SVG files would probably be half the size with this feature!
>> 
>>  <https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/Overview.html>
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