=================================== IE 5.5 Demos - HTML+Time Animations =================================== Last Updated: October 03, 2000 SUMMARY ======== HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions), first released in Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5, adds timing and media synchronization support to HTML pages. Using a few eXtensible Markup Language (XML)-based elements and attributes, you can add images, video, and sounds to an HTML page and synchronize them with HTML text elements over a specified amount of time. In short, you can use HTML+TIME technology to quickly create multimedia-rich, interactive presentations, easily and with little or no scripting. DETAILS ======== These animations use hidden HTML elements. Over time, the display property is set to block using the t:SET element. As each element is displayed, different attributes of the element are animated using the t:ANIMATE element. Changing the left and top CSS attributes animate the element positions. On the top animation, the background cycles through multiple colors using the t:ANIMATECOLOR element. You can create various effects by animating filters that are applied to elements. For example, to create a fading effect, apply the alpha filter and animate the filter's opacity property. USAGE ====== This behavior requires some basic declarations: - An "xmlns" declaration inside the HTML tag. - An import declaration with the appropriate namespace as specified in the "xmlns" declaration. Syntax: The following code shows a basic HTML+TIME document structure with the "xmlns" declaration and the import declaration. The following code demonstrates how to animate a color change on an element. The following code demonstrates how to animate a filter on an element. BROWSER/PLATFORM COMPATIBILITY =============================== This HTML+TIME sample is supported in Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5 or later on the Microsoft Win32® platform. HTML+TIME 1.0 is a submission to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). HTML+TIME 2.0 supersedes HTML+TIME 1 in Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5.5. HTML+TIME 2.0 is based on the HTML+SMIL language profile in the SMIL-Boston specification. SMIL Boston is the W3C successor to SMIL 1.0 SOURCE FILES ============= Animations.htm Animation1.htm Animation2.htm GRAPHICS FILES =============== Bgclockgray.gif Blacke.gif Dot.gif H.gif IETexter.gif L.gif M.gif Plus.gif T.gif SEE ALSO ========= For more information on HTML+Time, go to: http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/behaviors/time.asp For information on the HTML+Time 1.0 submission to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3), go to: http://www.w3.org/Submission/1998/14/ For information on the HTML+SMIL language profile, go to: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-smil-boston-20000622/html-smil-profile.html ================================== Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.