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One thing to keep note of is that SMIL is being deprecated by Chrome. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/5o0yiO440LM https://grou

One thing to keep note of is that SMIL is being deprecated by Chrome. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/5o0yiO440LM https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...

ygra 11y ago
It's also not supported in IE or Edge. Which makes animated GIFs way more compatible across different browsers.
jongalloway2 11y ago
SMIL is unnecessary, as explained in the article - use CSS or JavaScript to animate.
- derefr 11y ago
  Having a self-contained document-type is the cornerstone of sharing/remix culture. If you want people to be able to post your neat animated-SVG infographic to Facebook or Tumblr or Imgur or wherever—or to make some derivative of it with a meme plastered on top (and you probably do)—it needs to be able to be right-click-downloaded as a single file, edited as a single file, and then re-uploaded as a single file.
  - leni536 11y ago
    CSS and Javascript can be embedded.