[IAEP] svg animations, no?

[Bill Kerr]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Lucian Branescu
<lucian.branescu at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've tried animations as well (with JavaScript) and indeed they don't work.
>
> However, I'm not sure they really are a good idea for icons. They may
> get confusing or annoying.


I agree that animated icons become annoying but I'm thinking of it from the
POV of teaching SVG

Kids make their own icons - they like that. Certainly they would be further
engaged and learn more about SVGs if the opportunity to make animated icons
was there

It could be a good opportunity but you need the right tools - Opera browser
is the best I know for displaying SVGs - it seems that librsvg (information
from Tomeu) is not standards compliant at this time



> 2009/8/27 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>:
>  > On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:43, Bill Kerr<billkerr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Sugar does not support SVG animations? I just tried to replace the XO
> icon
> >> with an SVG animation as an extension of
> >> the http://en.flossmanuals.net/Sugar/8_4/ModifyingSugar exercise  - the
> icon
> >> replaced but was not animated.
> >> I'm seeking confirmation that this is correct and would be interested in
> the
> >> reason too
> >
> > Sugar uses librsvg to render all SVGs, I'm not sure which are the
> > capabilities of this library regarding animations.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tomeu
> >
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