UPDATE: I originally prepared this post before others working on the Web Animations spec assured me they would find a solution. I posted it password-protected for their sake not realising it would show up on planet! Sorry! Anyway, here is the original post for those who were curious. There are already some folks working on [...]
It must be time for my biannual blog post and this time I’d like to introduce a new development in animation for the Web, called, creatively enough, Web Animations. Some of you may have heard rumblings of an attempt to overcome some of the limitations with both CSS and SVG animations and unify them at [...]
About a week ago Mozilla Japan put on a two-day event in Tokyo called Mozilla Vision 2012. It was a great weekend with several hundred people coming to talk about what it means to be Open, and, in very Japanese-style, see some cool robots (courtesy of Takahashi Tomotaka-san). Personally, I was involved in running the [...]
Firefox 4 is going four dimensional! Time dimensional! (Ok, for those who know physics, just pretend :) There’s CSS transitions for all sorts of animated eye-candy, major JS speed-ups to give scripted animations a boost and mozRequestAnimationFrame to get keep them smooth and in sync, and a whole host of other graphics and video improvements. [...]
Our SMIL implementation passed another little milestone yesterday when we landed syncbase timing. We’ve still got a long way to go but this was always going to be the hardest feature for the timing model. I thought I’d just take this chance to acknowledge some of the people who’ve helped get us here. Particularly Daniel [...]
One last post as I race out the door. It appears my attempt to quash the enthusiasm surrounding SMIL doesn’t seem to have worked. It seems like some people are genuinely interested in SMIL and not just for Acid3! This weeks developments: <animateTransform> SVGAnimationElement interface Fixes to better synchronise the DOM state with the animation [...]
Well, SMIL has finally landed on mozilla-central! It’s been a long road since I first started out on this project nearly 5 years ago but we’ve finally reached the first milestone! Thank you very much to many who have helped or even just offered encouraging comments but thank you particularly to Daniel Holbert, Robert O’Callahan, [...]
Yay, back to SMIL! This is just a brief update to let you know about the state of SMIL in Mozilla! Here’s the low-context summary: Daniel Holbert has been taking on this work and pushing it along steadily (thanks a million Daniel!!) I’ve joined the Auckland office for my summer break (from December to the [...]
You’ve probably worked it out, but I’m no longer working on SMIL at the moment. tor has very kindly helped out and has been doing some work on this but it will not make it for Firefox 3. From now on, if you want to track the progress of SMIL in Mozilla I recommend: #216462 [...]
Wow, what a heading! Some would call it lack of imagination, I like to think of it as artistic restraint – it’s just too easy to make puns with “SMILe”! Progress on SMIL continues, albeit in slow motion. Just a really quick note for those one or two people who want to know what’s going [...]