RE: sometimes I take SVG for granted

Hi David,

 

I and my students have used and relied on FakeSmile a number of times over the years. I view it as a project akin to <replicate>  and declarative randomness (http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/svg/RandomTalk.html) and therefore like it a lot!

 

I just wasn’t thinking, and so, forgot about FakeSMILe’s existence. It may indeed be quite appropriate! I will have to give it a whirl on what I’ve been working with. I have about twenty examples of scene-to-scene transition effects done in SVG using SMIL (some of which, I gather,  can’t be done in CSS3 at present) and so FakeSMILe may indeed save me a lot of work! There are lots of multivalued and nonnumeric  animations.

 

Thanks for reminding me! In the meantime, I would encourage folks to think about scene-to-scene transitions using SVG.  I was very encouraged while in India that folks could see my presentations, built for the browser,  just fine on their cell phones. Scalable really is valuable! SVG really does work better than HTML for “build once deploy everywhere” I think. 

 

Maybe it should be renamed VVG just to get a little extra market buzz! 

 

Cheers

David

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Leunen
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 8:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [svg-developers] 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:

 

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.

 

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.

 

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!  

 

Cheers

David

 

 





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