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By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:36:50 +0000

Hi DJ. We’re expecting to have a basic version of SMIL out in Firefox 3.7 (Gecko 1.9.3). At this stage it looks like this version will be missing some features such as animateMotion and some timing features (e.g. event-based timing).

By: DJ

DJ — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:24:19 +0000

Hi, is there any status update with SMIL in firefox? I’m using 3.5, it’s January 2010, will it be some time this year? Looking forward to it, thanks.

By: Jacobus

Jacobus — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:41:19 +0000

It helps a lot, thanks Brian ;-) also, a personal thanks from me for all you have done for SMIL and Firefox. I’m sure your effort will go a long way.

The lack of SMIL support in Firefox is the only reason I still need other browsers. It’s going to be super when that hole is finally closed.

I drink to open standards and to all the boys and girls who fights for our freedom by pushing these standards!!!!

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:33:56 +0000

Hi Jacobus, thanks very much! I'm afraid I'm a bit out of the loop at the moment but I think the situation is as follows: 1) SMIL is not on the 3.1 (now 3.5) branch but only on trunk, so you need a nightly trunk build. I think you can get them at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/. 2) SMIL should now be built by default (bug 473705) on trunk. 3) SMIL is disabled by default and needs to be enabled by a pref in about:config, namely svg.smil.enabled (bug 473904). As far as I know, SMIL won't make it into Firefox 3.5. So the earliest it might appear would be 3.6, and that might be incomplete. Hope that helps!

By: Jacobus

Jacobus — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:07:09 +0000

Fantastic work guys! Great news! Super Super great!

I have just downloaded the latest 3.1 beta, but the animateTransform example mentioned above is still not working. In what version of Firefox will this be released?

Best,
Jacobus

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By: Daniel Holbert

Daniel Holbert — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:26:09 +0000

@Jeff:

Here’s a TryServer build with animateTransform support:
https://build.mozilla.org/tryserver-builds/2009-01-19_10:37-dholbert@mozilla.com-try-d6dcceb256f/

Sample animateTransform animation:
http://www.kevlindev.com/tutorials/basics/animation/svg_smil/rotate.svg

By: Jeff Schiller

Jeff Schiller — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:19:30 +0000

I see you’ve got your animateTransform patch landed. Any chance somebody could spin a nightly with SMIL enabled for me? Thanks in advance!