Re: Proposal: Fix discrete to animation in SVG 1.1 Second Edition

Hi Brian,

--Original Message--:
>Hi Alex,
>
>On 7 April 2011 10:37, Alex Danilo <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I just checked this out.
>>
>> We do what Opera and WebKit do, namely switch at the 2 second
>> point (mid-point) of the discrete to animation. Also, we ignore
>> the keyTimes so the change happens at 4s instead of 2s for Cameron's
>> last test case in 92-t.
>>
>> This is just another data point for you, I don't claim it's
>> what SMIL expects...
>
>That's good to know. It gives us confidence that the proposed change
>will bring the specification into line with implementations (and
>common sense, since I believe the implementations are doing what is
>most intuitive in this case).
>
>I think the keyTimes issue is a bug (and that Cameron's test is
>correct) since I believe SMIL does say that keyTimes apply to
>to-animation as well[1] but I'm not fussed whether the proposed
>keyTimes wording ends up in the spec or not.

Looking at our code, we don't even consider keyTimes unless there's
a values list. That was written years ago, before SMIL 3 existed
so makes sense. If the test gets approved, I guess that'll need to
be fixed...

Interestingly, the SMIL 3 spec. you quoted says this:
"The keyTimes and keySplines attributes may also be used with the
from/to/by shorthand forms for specifying values"

which seems to imply 'to' animations are just shorthand for
list of values rather than a completely different type of
animation. I don't recall if that's changed from 2 since
it's a long time since I've looked at it.

>Thanks again Alex,

You're welcome,
Alex

>Brian
>
>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL/smil-animation.html#animationNS-InterpolationKeysplines
>
>
>