Re: SMIL support?

"Hillbilly" <[email protected]>
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Excellent response thank you. My partner and I are developing software 
services we hope to utilize as we enter the nascent emerging digital signage 
markets. The manufacturers and media player vendors are now selling players 
that support SMIL [1].  I'm sure you'll now understand the usefulness of 
having a browser with native support during the design and testing phase of 
this type of application.

[1] 
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/digital-signage/media-players/nmp550.htm


"HelderMagalhaes" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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Hi Hillbilly,

> What's the skinny on SMIL support? I've recently learned its about to come
> back in a big way and thought FF provided native parsing for .smil files?

I'm not sure about native SMIL support. SVG supports SMIL-based
animation [1] (you may be interested in section "Relationship to SMIL
Animation" [2], and Firefox has been progressing on that. Bug 216462
[3] was already fixed, although it's currently not yet easily
available. Bug 473904 [4] should be able to make SVG SMIL animation
possible through a simple preference change in nightly builds [5]
(soon I hope) but currently you need to build it yourself.

Please provide more details on what you indent in order to get more
targeted feedback.

Hope this helps,
 Helder Magalhães

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/animate.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/animate.html#RelationshipToSMILAnimation
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216462
[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473904
[5] http://www.mozilla.org/developer/#builds
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