“Introducing the layer based SVG engine”
Nikolas Zimmermann goes over the work he’s been doing to modernise SVG rendering in WebKit. Chrome IIRC has a similar project in the works.
@baldur I wish I could fully understand that this all means, but if it will lead to beautiful and skillfully made animations and presentations on the web, then I’m all for it. Will it be possible to mix and sync multilayer SVG to video files? Is there already(?)
@odd I'm guessing that designs like that would probably run into performance issues on many devices in browsers today but haven't tested directly. Probably would depend very much on the device and the specific SVG.
In theory, this should help with that, though, once it lands as it would enable hardware acceleration of both the video and SVG layers. Chrome has a similar project in the works and FireFox has been working towards greater hardware acceleration for a while, so, fingers crossed, the future of SVG animation is going to be a bright one 🙂