Re: sometimes I take SVG for granted

Hi David,

How do you animate in IE ?
Many years ago, I wrote FakeSmile <http://leunen.me/fakesmile/>. Some
managed to make it work in IE.
Doesn't it help for your case ?
And if not, what is the issue ?


D.

On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 12:19 AM, David Dailey <[email protected]>wrote:

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> When I write code like d=”M 100, 100 C 300, 100 100,300 300,300” I usually
> don’t remember how hard it was to do things like that in the good old days.
>
>
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> Today I really wanted something to work across browsers – it took me 15
> minutes to cobble something together using SMIL animation that worked in
> all browsers but Internet Explorer. I spent the rest of the afternoon
> getting it to work in IE. Getting the timing loops synchronized
> (synchronizing integer and floating point loops) was a royal pain. It was
> not instructive; I am not a better person for the effort (I have done the
> same bloody thing scores of times before).  And I realized that without
> being able to say
>
> <animate attributeName="opacity" values="0;1;1;0" dur="4s"
> repeatCount="indefinite" />
>
> Or
>
> <animate attributeName="opacity" values="0;1;1;0" keyTimes=”0;.1;.9;1”
>  dur="4s" repeatCount="indefinite" />
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> I’m going to have to struggle for another hour or two to get the fadein
> and fadeout correct.
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>
>
> It just reminded me of how nice the SVG philosophy of markup is. Thank-you
> Chris Lilley and Jon Ferraiolo and the others for the early work on behalf
> of authors and artists!
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>
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>