Re:

On 6 jan 2010, at 16:00, Ted Han wrote:

> Hey Jack,
>=20
> Do you Ambulant guys do much integrating with web based presentation =
of content?  I've dug up a variety of flash players who claim to support =
SMIL (for varying values of "support"), but so far as i understood it, =
Ambulant is just desktop based, and implemented in C++, which makes it a =
difficult reference implementation to those writing in languages =
typically used to power the web.

As of our 2.2 release (which is imminent, and betas are available on our =
website) we have Ambulant-based browser plugins for Safari (mac), =
Firefox (Linux and Windows) and IE (Windows).
We've used this one for experimenting with integrating SMIL and HTML as =
well, there's two papers about that: =
<http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D1553304.1553310> and =
<http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3D1410140.1410146> (the first =
is an expanded version of the latter).

We're also working on a no-frills SMIL 3.0 subset player in JavaScript, =
but it's going to be a while before that is finished. (In other words: =
if you're interested and want to join the project: speak up:-)

>=20
> Incidentally, do you know of any other SMIL3 players beyond Ambulant?

None as complete as Ambulant, as far as I know.
--
Jack Jansen, <[email protected]>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma =
Goldman