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Does anyone know the current state of SVG SMIL animation support in the popular browsers? It looks like Safari, Chrome, and Opera support it. Firefox has confusing reports in their dev pages about SMIL support having been added, but I don't see it as of v3.6:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216462
I am ignoring IE since they don't even support SVG at all, and probably never will, much less SMIL.
The other thing - just comparing this test page between Safari, Chrome, and Opera:
http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/ovaling.svg
looks like Opera is the only one that renders it correctly. Should we not be using SMIL - kind of looks half-baked in all the browsers (sadly)? Blast.
Thanks
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Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, or SMIL, is a language separate from, but closely integrated with SVG. It allows for various animation effects to be used in conjunction with SVG. SMIL has been a W3C recommendation since 1998 when version 1.0 was adopted22.
SVGs can be styled and animated with CSS (slides). Basically, any transformation or transition animation that can be applied to an HTML element can also be applied to an SVG element. But there are some SVG properties that cannot be animated through CSS that can through SVG.
Warning: Although Chrome 45 deprecated SMIL in favor of CSS animations and Web animations, the Chrome developers have since suspended that deprecation. Firefox 4 introduced support for animating SVG using Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL).
Deprecated: This feature is no longer recommended. Though some browsers might still support it, it may have already been removed from the relevant web standards, may be in the process of being dropped, or may only be kept for compatibility purposes.
http://www.codedread.com/svg-support.php has a rough comparison, and mentions SMIL in Firefox starting version 3.7. About IE, maybe Wednesday changes everything, see: live.visitmix.com/MIX10/Sessions/EX30
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