{"id":516,"date":"2009-01-15T01:38:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T06:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.codedread.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/15\/houston-the-smil-has-landed\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T01:38:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T06:38:53","slug":"houston-the-smil-has-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/15\/houston-the-smil-has-landed\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston, the SMIL has landed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/mozilla.svgz\"><span\/><\/object><object type=\"image\/svg+xml\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" style=\"float:right\" data=\"http:\/\/codedread.com\/clipart\/smile.svgz\"><span\/><\/object><a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=216462#c181\">This day<\/a> was five-and-a-half years in the making:  the initial patch to add SMIL support has landed on Mozilla trunk.  SMIL is the Open Web way of doing declarative animation, I use it on my site here and there via <a href=\"http:\/\/leunen.d.free.fr\/fakesmile\/index.html\" title=\"FakeSmile is a JavaScript workaround to give browsers some support for SMIL+SVG\">FakeSmile<\/a>.  This Mozilla patch is partial support for SMIL within SVG only (not HTML).  Note that SMIL support is disabled in the build by default, as <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/roc\/archives\/2009\/01\/post31_plans.html\">roc says<\/a> \"we should enable it when we've got enough implemented that we wouldn't feel embarrassed about shipping it. \" - but this is a significant step forward.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks and congratulations go to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dholbert.org\/2009\/01\/smil-support-has-landed.html\" title=\"Daniel Holbert's blog\">Daniel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/brian.sol1.net\/svg\/\">Brian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/roc\/\">Robert<\/a>!  Also thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/MacDev_ed\/blog\/\">Erik<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ln.hixie.ch\/\">Ian<\/a> for putting some SMIL tests into Acid3.  Not that this had anything to do with it.  Oh, no. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Opera has supported SMIL in SVG for a couple years now.  Anyone want to place bets on who will be the second to release a browser that supports it? Mozilla? Apple? Google?  Microsoft?  What, did I say something funny?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This day was five-and-a-half years in the making: the initial patch to add SMIL support has landed on Mozilla trunk. SMIL is the Open Web way of doing declarative animation, I use it on my site here and there via FakeSmile. This Mozilla patch is partial support for SMIL within SVG only (not HTML). Note [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,25,46,11,28],"tags":[56,190,114,136,198],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","category-ria","category-software","category-svg","category-technology","category-web","tag-animation","tag-firefox","tag-mozilla","tag-smil","tag-svg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}