Re: SMIL animation preference

It was confusing but still; support for .smil files in the browser is needed 
by [somebody|anybody] because of the emergence of digital signage. Several 
media player vendors support .smil files for playlists and so on but at 
several hundred dollars per player and another box to plug into the wall 
we'd rather be using Firefox of course eh?


"Daniel Holbert" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
news:[email protected]...
> Thanks! :)
>
> Also, just to be clear: in the post you're responding to, I was talking 
> about smil-animation *within SVG* -- that's the extent of Mozilla's SMIL 
> support.  (I'm clarifying because I noticed you'd had some earlier posts 
> asking about support for .smil files -- those still aren't supported.)
>
> Sorry if that caused any confusion.
>
> ~Daniel
>
>
> On 06/29/2010 04:28 PM, Hillbilly wrote:
>> 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
>>
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