Re: [office] How to add animations for shapes on master pages

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

On 12/09/2007, Peter Korn <Peter.Korn@sun.com> wrote:

> Indeed, your example of the animated graph is a good one.  On the flip
> side, you can imagine something like the animated logo of a company (vs.
> the static image logo of that same company), or images of tweeting birds
> in the background of a presentation on ornithology.  The animation
> itself contains no semantic meaning - it is decorative.  It is, perhaps,
> one step above the interstitial slide animations, where one slide wipes
> left to the other, vs. irising open. vs...

If the reader knows what it represents, they can decide if its decorative?
Company logo is probably sufficient. I guess we'd nearly all skip over it,
unless you were going for an interview with that company?


>
> What I think we need to do is ensure the format provides a means to
> convey at least a text description of the animation meaning, and to
> write guidelines that help authors decide when they should use it.  That
> of course means we need author guidelines (vs. authoring tool guidelines).

If it's svg then use the elements of svg:g, the grouping elements,
and get the tool implementors to always wrap animations in a g element.

regards





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