Re: SMIL animation preference

Whoa, SMIL support at last? This is outstanding news. Thank you Mozilla 
team!

"Daniel Holbert" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:[email protected]...
> On 01/11/2010 04:07 PM, Adrien ANDRE wrote:
> > I have the firefox 3.5.7 version, and according to
> > https://wiki.mozilla.org/SMIL
> > i can turn SMIL animation on by toggling the "svg.smil.enabled"
> > preference to true.
>
> On the wiki page, that paragraph starts with:
> > "SMIL Animation support is now built into trunk builds by
> > default (it's included in the nightlies)".
>
> "Trunk builds" are from the "mozilla-central" development trunk, which is 
> *different* from our release branches (like the branch that Firefox 3.5 is 
> built from).
>
> So, in short, SMIL support isn't included in 3.5 -- the earliest Firefox 
> release to include SMIL will probably be Firefox 3.7 (or whatever we call 
> the Firefox release that uses Gecko 1.9.3).
>
> If you'd like to test Mozilla's SMIL support right now, though, you can 
> download a trunk build from here:
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central
>
> (Also, incidentally -- the "svg.smil.enabled" pref is enabled by default 
> on mozilla-central now.  So despite what that wiki page said, you won't 
> need to manually toggle the pref anymore. I've updated the wiki page to 
> reflect that.)
>
> Thanks,
> ~Daniel