Bernard Devlin wrote:
I looked into SMIL/QT a couple of years back, but never did much with
it. Could it be simply that the URL in the xmlns:qt is returning a
404? Maybe there was a real document there before. If that is the
problem, then maybe you can put the appropriate document up on a
webserver of your own and change the URL.
The main reason I decided not to look further into SMIL/QT was because
it was clear that (at least in that incarnation) those technologies
were being mothballed. Maybe an QT update has changed the way things
work. I remember isolating QT so that it could not be updated, after
I got my hand bitten before.
Many years ago I started work on a timeline editor for SMIL, but it was
just a hobby and I had no actual need for it so it never got very far.
Seeing where Apple's support for it is now, maybe letting it go wasn't a
bad thing.
It's too bad, though, because SMIL serves a role no other spec provides.
If Apple's serious about making good on their anti-Flash agenda
they'll have to at least support SVG animation, which incorporates a
fair bit of SMIL. TTML also offers a lot of promise, and also
incorporates some aspects of SMIL.
The most unfortunate thing about this is that searching for "SMIL" at
the Apple dev site turns up zero results - not even a page noting its
deprecation, or a redirect for the URL they apparently dumped. Clumsy.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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