231729 - XHTML+SMIL support in mozilla

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Kees]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114

As I saw in several closed bugs, requests to get SMIL 2.0 support in mozilla
were denied. I agree SMIL 2.0 is better supported through a plugin like realplayer.
XHTML+SMIL however is about extending XHTML with some parts of SMIL (not the
whole thing.)
The XHTML+SMIL note has been in existance for at least 2 years now:
http://www.w3.org/TR/XHTMLplusSMIL/

XHTML+SMIL reuses several technologies already in mozilla. Like CSS for defining
layout and XHTML for linking. So I think this is a candidate for implementation
in mozilla. XHTML+SMIL is already in IE since version 5.5. Time to catch up ;-)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

see bug 93321 comment 6

BTW: I thought that IE supports HTML+TIME, not XHTML+SMIL ? See
<http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-HTMLplusTIME> and
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dntime/html/htmltime.asp>

Comment 2

[Alex Fritze]

Is this bug about SVG Declarative Animations (in which case it should be
renamed) or about XHTML+SMIL support in general (in which case SVG is the wrong
component)?

Comment 3

[Kees]

About XHTML+SMIL support in general because it's not specifically about SVG support.

Comment 4

[Alex Fritze]

(In reply to comment #3)
> About XHTML+SMIL support in general because it's not specifically about SVG
support.

In that case ... rassigning to browser-general :-)

Comment 5

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

That document is a note, not a recommendation. But this would be WONTFIX for the
same reasons as bug 93321.