[Web4lib] getting SMIL to work in IE 6

Mon Apr 21 14:37:52 EDT 2008

Is there any reason you're using the MS name space?  I haven't worked with SMIL in a few years but it was my understanding that you didn't need to use a proprietary xml name space.  

Chad Hutchens

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of jfitzgibbon at galwaylibrary.ie
Sent: Mon 4/21/2008 8:26 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] getting SMIL to work in IE 6

Hi,

I am attempting to display two videos in sequence as part of a 
demonstration. Both videos are in .flv format and are displayed using 
Flash Video Player. In the demonstration, I hope to display some minutes 
from both videos. My idea is to set this up in a Web page and control the 
display with SMIL.

This is my HTML file with the SMIL tags included.

***************************************************************

<html xmlns:time="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:time">
<head>
  <?import namespace="t" implementation="#default#time2">
  <style>.time {behavior: url(#default#time2)}</style>
</head>

<t:smil>
	<t:body>

		<t:seq repeatCount="1">
			<t:video class="time" src="one_a.flv" type="video/x-flv" begin="2s" 
dur="1:00.1"/>
			<t:video class="time" src="two_a.flv" type="video/x-flv" begin="4s" 
dur="1:00.1"/>
		</t:seq>

	</t:body>
<t:smil>

</html>

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Unfortunately, this doesn't work and I fail to see why not. I would really 
appreciate any assistance. SMIL can be a really powerful technology if 
only it would do on screen what it can do in my head.

Regards
John 

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