A Guide to SVG Animations (SMIL)

I wish SMIL is supported in browsers these days. There are some javascript hacks to emulate it and there was also some SMIL players but it never went mainstream.

It's particularly interesting to digital signage systems.

Wow, that was a super thorough article.

The title ought to change to specify that this is an SMIL guide.

It's too bad that Internet Explorer doesn't support SMIL [0]. This unfortunately eliminates SMIL from consideration for many projects.

[0] http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg-smil

SVG 1.1 spec shares some definitions with SMIL spec, but if I recall correctly SVG working group is planning to get rid of any mention of SMIL in SVG 2 and instead rely on the terms and concepts outlined in the Web Animation spec [1] (the API will remain the same though).

I would change the title to "A Guide to Declarative Animation in SVG".

[1] http://w3c.github.io/web-animations/

We made the title match the original, which has SMIL in parens.