Re: [Inkscape-devel] Yesterday was SMIL and today is Mesh Gradients

Hi Brynn,

Thank you for the info and the links.

I believe that this might help us shed some light into SMIL and Chrome (for
instance).
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/SVG_animation_with_SMIL
which will lead you to this link:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/5o0yiO440LM%5B126-150%5D
(which seems to have some important message from google folks).


And this other site seems to provide interesting coverage of the SMIL
feature on most popular browser vendors.
https://caniuse.com/#feat=svg-smil

Hope this helps somehow!
Have a great day.



--Victor Westmann

On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 3:51 PM, brynn <[email protected]> wrote:

> I seem to recall that Tavmjong addressed this in a blog entry, back when
> the decision was made to push gradient mesh into 0.92.  Let's see if I can
> find the link....
>
> Here's the one about SMIL:  http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1262
>
> Here's the one about gradient mesh:  http://tavmjong.free.fr/blog/?p=1554
>
> Hhmm, that's not what I was thinking of.  But I can't seem to find it.
> Maybe it wasn't his blog.... [banging head - arrgggh!]  It must have been a
> mailing list thread....  You could probably use the dates of those blog
> posts to narrow down a search of the list archives, and find that thread.
> Sorry I don't have time to search just now.
>
> I seem to recall that they were just thinking about not supporting
> gradient meshes though.  Did you see some definite decision about it?  I
> also thought removing SMIL was decided, so maybe you have some new info
> that I haven't heard yet?  Or maybe I just had a misunderstanding?
>
> All best,
> brynn
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Victor Westmann
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 10:05 PM
> To: Inkscape-Devel ; inkscape-user
> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Yesterday was SMIL and today is Mesh Gradients
>
>
>
> Hi fellow inkscapers,
>
> I was amazed to read that inkscape already has Mesh Gradients (since
> version 0.92) just like Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator got this exact same
> feature in the version 8 (released in 1998). 20 years ago.
>
> But it seems that Mesh Gradients will be removed from the SVG 2.0
> specification. My question is WHY?
>
> That made me really sad and wondering: isn't there anything we can do to
> prevent that from happening? Can we make a petition or talk to
> Mozilla/Chrome/Opera/Vivaldi browser so they can implement this and this
> feature, as soon as it gets traction, to be kept in the 2.0 spec of SVG
> technology?
>
> Ideas anyone? Is this too unrealistic or we can do something about it?
>
> I remember google chrome almost removed SMIL feature from Google Chrome
> but then the feature got traction and started being used more and more...
> so they kept it.
>
>
>
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