I used to be chatting with Andy Clarke the opposite day a couple of new article he needs to put in writing about SVG animations.
“I’ve learn some issues that mentioned that SMIL is perhaps a useless finish.” He mentioned. “Whaddya suppose?”
That was my impression, too. Sarah Drasner summed up the state of affairs properly means again in 2017:
Sadly, assist for SMIL is waning in WebKit, and has by no means (nor will doubtless ever) exist for Microsoft’s IE or Edge browsers.
Chrome was additionally in on the get together and printed an intent to deprecate SMIL, citing work in different browsers to assist SVG animations in CSS. MDN linked to that very same thread in its SMIL documentation when it printed a deprecation warning.
Effectively, Chrome by no means deprecated SMIL. At the least in keeping with this reply within the thread dated 2023. And since then, we’ve additionally seen Microsoft’s Edge undertake a Chromium engine, successfully making it a Chrome clone. Additionally, final I checked, Caniuse studies full assist in WebKit browsers.
Desktop
| Chrome | Firefox | IE | Edge | Safari |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 4 | 11 | 79 | 6 |
Cell / Pill
| Android Chrome | Android Firefox | Android | iOS Safari |
|---|---|---|---|
| 134 | 136 | 3 | 6.0-6.1 |
Now, I’m not saying that SMIL is completely alive and effectively. It may nonetheless very effectively be within the doldrums, particularly when there are strong alternate options in CSS and JavaScript. However it’s additionally not useless within the water.
