SMIL and QuickTime

[Richard Gaskin]

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.

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