SMIL Animations in SVG: Where CSS Falls Short and SMIL Takes Over
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[email protected] (Andy Clarke)
1y ago· 16 min readen
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Summary
Andy Clarke explains how SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) animations in SVG can complement and extend CSS animations. The article covers the history of SMIL (introduced by W3C in 1998), its integration into SVG 1.1, and practical applications where SMIL animations excel beyond what CSS can achieve. Despite rumors of its demise, SMIL remains alive and functional within SVG for creating sophisticated animations.
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· 3 pulledAdding simple SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) animations in SVG can help them do much more.
The SMIL specification was introduced by the W3C in 1998 for synchronizing multimedia.
You might've heard that SMIL is dead. However, it's alive and well.
While there are plenty of ways that CSS animations can bring designs to life, adding simple SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) animations in SVG can help them do much more. Andy Clarke explains where SMIL animations in SVG take over where
