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This section is informative.
There are three major changes to the Media Object modules for SMIL 3.0: the first is the splitting of the SMIL 2.1 MediaParam module into two modules: the MediaParam and MediaRenderAttributes modules; the second is the introduction of the MediaOpacity module, containing new rendering attributes for chroma key and opacity control; the third is the introduction of the MediaPanZoom module. The rationale for these changes is:
The MediaParam module also includes new text that explicitly discusses the behavior of adding the various media control attributes defined in that section to a SMIL layout region definition as a means of providing a global mechanism for applying default attribute settings to all content rendered within that region.
A number of editorial changes have also been integrated into the various Media Object modules descriptions; these do not impact the functionality defined in earlier versions of SMIL.
This section is informative.
This section defines the SMIL media object modules, which are composed of the BasicMedia module and nine modules with additional functionality that build on top of the BasicMedia module: the BrushMedia, MediaClipping, MediaClipMarkers, MediaParam, MediaRenderAttributes, MediaOpacity, MediaAccessibility, MediaDescription, and MediaPanZoom modules. These modules contain elements and attributes used to reference external media objects or control media object rendering behavior. Since these elements and attributes are defined in a series of modules, designers of other markup languages may reuse the SMIL media module when they wish to include media objects into their language.
The differences between current media object functionality and that provided by the SMIL 1.0 specification are explained in Appendix A.
This section is normative.
This section provides convenience definitions for common timing and resource identifier terms used in this module.
SMIL provides a number of timing-related concepts that are used to determine activation, duration and termination of media objects in a presentation. The temporal semantics of these concepts are discussed in the SMIL 3.0 Timing and Synchronization module.
The distinction between continuous and discrete media is sometimes arbitrary and may be SMIL renderer dependent. For example, animated images that do not have a well-defined duration (simply a repeating collection of frames) are classified for SMIL scheduling purposes as being discrete media; such objects have an intrinsic scheduling duration of zero seconds.
In this specification, the term URI [URI] refers to a universal resource identifier, as defined in [RFC3986] and subsequently extended under the name IRI in [RFC3987]. In some cases, the term URI has been retained in the specification to avoid using new names for concepts such as "Base URI" that are defined or referenced across a whole family of XML specifications.
This section is normative.
This module defines the baseline media functionality of a SMIL player.
SMIL defines a single generic media object element that allows the inclusion of external media objects into a SMIL presentation. Media objects are included by reference (using a IRI).
In addition to the ref element, SMIL allows the use of the following set of synonyms:
All of these media elements are semantically identical. When playing back an external media object, the player must not derive the exact type of the media object from the name of the media object element. Instead, it must rely solely on other sources about the type, such as the type information communicated by a server or the operating system, or by using type information contained in the type attribute.
This section is informative.
Authors are encouraged to use meaningful synonyms (animation, audio, img, video, text or textstream) when referencing external media objects. This is in order to increase the readability of the SMIL document. Some SMIL implementations may require the use of an element type that matches the information type of the object. When in doubt about the group of a media object, authors should use the generic "ref" element.
The animation element defined here should not be confused with the elements defined in the SMIL 3.0 Animation Module. The animation element defined in this module is used to include an external animation object file (such as a vector graphics animation) by reference. This is in contrast to the elements defined in the Animation module, which provide an in-line syntax for the animation of attributes and properties of other elements.
SMIL 3.0 also supports the smilText element for defining in-line timed text content. This functionality is described in the smilText Modules specification.
Anchors and links may be attached to visual media objects, i.e. media objects rendered on a visual abstract rendering surface.
Languages implementing the SMIL BasicMedia Module must define which attributes may be attached to media object elements. In all languages implementing the SMIL BasicMedia module, media object elements may have the following attributes:
The attribute supports fragment identifiers and the '#' connector in the IRI value. The fragment part is an id value that identifies one of the elements within the referenced media item. With this construct, SMIL 3.0 supports locators as currently used in HTML (that is, it uses locators of the form http://www.example.org/some/path#anchor1), with the difference that the values are of unique identifiers and not the values of "name" attributes. Generally speaking, this type of addressing implies that the target media is of a structured type that supports the concept of id, such as HTML or XML-based languages.
Note that this attribute is not required. A media object with no src attribute has an intrinsic duration of zero, and participates in timing just as any other media element. No media will be fetched by the SMIL implementation for a media element without a src attribute.
When the content represented by a URL is available in many data formats, implementations MAY use the type value to influence which of the multiple formats is used. For instance, on a server implementing HTTP content negotiation, the client may use the type attribute to order the preferences in the negotiation. The type attribute is not intended for use in media sub-stream selection.
For protocols not enumerated in this specification, implementations should use the following rules: When the media is encapsulated in a media file and delivered intact to the SMIL user agent via a protocol designed for delivery as a complete file, the media type as provided by this protocol should take precedence over the type attribute value. For protocols which deliver the media in a media-aware fashion, such as those delivering media in a manner using or dependent upon the specific type of media, the application of the type attribute is not defined by this specification.
Element Content
Languages utilizing the SMIL BasicMedia module must define the complete set of elements which may act as children of media object elements. There are currently no required children of a media object defined in the BasicMedia Module, but languages utilizing the BasicMedia module may impose requirements beyond this specification.
If the including profile supports the XMLBase functionality [XMLBase] , the values of the src and longdesc attributes on the media object elements must be interpreted in the context of the relevant XMLBase URI prefix.
User-agent implementations are responsible for defining the rendering
behavior when fragment addressing is used in the src attribute. Such definition should be added
to language profiles that wish to include specific media addressing features.
For example:
- User-agents should define the default behavior for when referencing a
non-existing id in the target media document.
- User-agents should define the rendering method for the selected media
fragment: in context, with or without highlighting and scrolling, or
stand-alone (selective rendering only).
- User-agents should describe the timing implication for when addressing
SMIL 3.0 allows but does not require user agents to be able to process XPointer values in the IRI value of the src attribute. The SMIL 3.0 Linking Module provides additional information related to XPointer.
This section is normative.
This section defines the elements and attributes that make up the SMIL MediaParam Module definition. The MediaParam module is intended to provide a uniform mechanism for media object initialization. Languages implementing elements and attributes found in the MediaParam module must implement all elements and attributes defined below, as well as BasicMedia.
The param element allows a general parameter value to be sent to a media object renderer as a name/value pair. This parameter is sent to the renderer at the time that the media object is processed by the scheduler. It is up to the media renderer to associate an action with the given param. The media renderer may choose to ignore any unknown or inappropriate param values (such as sending a font size to an audio object).
Any number of param elements may appear (in any order) in the content of a media object element or in a paramGroup element. If a given parameter is defined multiple times, the lexically last version of that parameter value should be used.
The syntax of names and values is assumed to be understood by the object's implementation. The SMIL specification does not specify how user agents should retrieve name/value pairs.
This section is informative.
To illustrate the use of param, suppose that we have a facial animation plug-in that is able to accept different moods and accessories associated with characters. These could be defined in the following way:<ref src="http://www.example.com/herbert.face"> <param name="mood" value="surly" valuetype="data"/> <param name="accessories" value="baseball-cap,nose-ring" valuetype="data"/> </ref>
The paramGroup element provides a convenience mechanism for defining a collection of media parameters that may be reused with several different media objects. If present, the paramGroup element must appear in the head section of the document. The content of the paramGroup element consists of zero or more param elements. The paramGroup element may not contain nested paramGroup element definitions.
Element attributes
This element does not define any new attributes. Profiles integrating this element must specify an attribute of type ID [XML11] by which the param group is referenced in a media object reference. For SMIL 3.0, the xml:id attribute will typically be used.
This section is informative.
This section contains several fragments that illustrate uses of the paramGroup element.
In the following fragment, a paramGroup is created to define parameters that are passed to several different media objects:
<smil ... >  ... <paramGroup xml:id="clown"> <param name="mood" value="upBeat" valuetype="data"/> <param name="accessories" value="flowers,dunceCap"/> </paramGroup> ...   ... <ref src="http://www.example.com/andy.face" paramGroup="clown"/> ... <ref src="http://www.example.com/sally.face" paramGroup="clown"/> ...  </smil>
In the following example, a media object provides an additional param value:
<smil ... >  ... <paramGroup xml:id="clown"> <param name="mood" value="upBeat" valuetype="data"/> <param name="accessories" value="flowers,dunceCap"/> </paramGroup> ...   ... <ref src="http://www.example.com/andy.face" paramGroup="clown"> <param name="gender" value="male"/> </ref> ...  </smil>
In this final example, a media object provides a duplicate param value. The behavior in this case depends on the media renderer; all param values are passed to the renderer in the lexical order of the SMIL source file. It is expected that the lexically last value for any parameter sent to the renderer be used, if possible.
<smil ... >  ... <paramGroup xml:id="clown"> <param name="mood" value="upBeat" valuetype="data"/> <param name="accessories" value="flowers,dunceCap"/> </paramGroup> ...   ... <ref src="http://www.example.com/andy.face" paramGroup="clown"> <param name="gender" value="male"/> <param name="mood" value="depressed" valuetype="data"/> </ref> ...  </smil>
In addition to the element attributes defined in BasicMedia, media object elements and layout regions may add the media initialization attribute defined below.
Any profile that integrates the functionality of this module is strongly encouraged to define a set of common parameter names that may be used to initialize common media object types for that profile. This can significantly increase interoperability of user agents and media rendering libraries.
The supported uses of the type and valuetype attributes on the param element must be specified by the integrating profile. If a profile does not specify this, the type and valuetype attributes will be ignored in that profile.
This section is normative.
This section defines the elements and attributes that make up the SMIL MediaRenderAttributes Module definition. Languages implementing elements and attributes found in the MediaRenderAttributes module must implement all elements and attributes defined below, as well as BasicMedia.
This module does not define any elements.
In addition to the element attributes defined in BasicMedia, media object elements and layout regions may have the attributes and attribute extensions defined below.
This section is informative.
<par> <seq> <par>  <audio src="audio1.au"/> </par> <par>  <audio src="audio2.au"/> </par> ... <par>  <audio src="audioN.au"/> </par> </seq> </par>
In this example, each image is successively displayed and remains displayed until the end of the presentation.
As an example of how this would be used, many animated GIFs intrinsically repeat indefinitely. The application of mediaRepeat= "strip" allows an author to remove the intrinsic repeat behavior of an animated GIF on a per-reference basis, causing the animation to display only once, regardless of the repeat value embedded in the GIF.
When mediaRepeat is used in conjunction with SMIL Timing Module attributes, this attribute is applied first, so that the repeat behavior can then be controlled with the SMIL Timing Module attributes such as repeatCount and repeatDur.
Any profile that supports the erase attribute must define what is meant by "display area" and further define the interaction. See the definition of erase for more details.
This section is normative.
This section defines the elements and attributes that make up the SMIL MediaOpacity Module definition. Languages implementing elements and attributes found in the MediaOpacity module must implement all elements and attributes defined below, as well as BasicMedia.
This module does not define any elements.
In addition to the element attributes defined in BasicMedia, media object elements and layout regions may have the attributes and attribute extensions defined below.
This section is informative.
The attributes in this module allow the opacity (that is, the degree to which a media object is transparent) to be defined. Opacity may be controlled in several ways, depending on the type of media being used. For unstructured media (that is, media that does not contain an explicitly-defined background color), the chromaKey attribute may be used to identify a particular color that will serve as the background color for purposes of opacity manipulation. If a chromaKey is used, the chromaKeyOpacity attribute may specify the degree of transparency desired. Since the color used to define a background may not be exactly preserved within a media object, the chromaKeyTolerance attribute allows a tolerance range to be defined for the chroma key color.
Some media objects, such as RealText, smilText, GIF, PNG, and Flash, define an explicit background color. In these cases, the specification of the opacity of that color can be done using the mediaBackgroundOpacity attribute. In these cases, only the defined color is manipulated.
In addition to specifying the transparency level of a particular background color, SMIL also allows the specification of the transparency level of a total media object. This is accomplished using the mediaOpacity attribute.
Note that SMIL layout also defines the backgroundOpacity attribute to control the transparency of a layout region.
This module does not introduce any special integration constraints.
This section is normative.
This section defines the attributes that make up the SMIL MediaClipping Module definition. Languages implementing the attributes found in the MediaClipping module must implement the attributes defined below, as well as BasicMedia.
Clip-value-MediaClipping ::= [ Metric "=" ] ( Clock-val | Smpte-val ) Metric ::= Smpte-type | "npt" Smpte-type ::= "smpte" | "smpte-30-drop" | "smpte-25" Smpte-val ::= Hours ":" Minutes ":" Seconds [ ":" Frames [ "." Subframes ]] Hours ::= DIGIT+ Minutes ::= DIGIT DIGIT /* range from 00 to 59 */ Seconds ::= DIGIT DIGIT /* range from 00 to 59 */ Frames ::= DIGIT DIGIT /* smpte range = 00-29, smpte-30-drop range = 00-29, smpte-25 range = 00-24 */ Subframes ::= DIGIT DIGIT /* smpte range = 00-01, smpte-30-drop range = 00-01, smpte-25 range = 00-01 */ DIGIT ::= [0-9]
The value of this attribute consists of a metric specifier, followed by a time value whose syntax and semantics depend on the metric specifier. The following formats are allowed:
The time value has the format
hours:minutes:seconds:frames.subframes. If the subframe value is
zero, it may be omitted. Subframes are measured in one-hundredths
of a frame.
This section is informative.
The introduction of subframe notation in SMIL 2.1 introduced an inconsistency with SMIL 1.0. As of this draft, SMIL 3.0 has deprecated the subframe notation.
"If no metric specifier is given, then a default of "npt=" is presumed.
When used in conjunction with the timing attributes from the SMIL Timing Module, this attribute is applied before any SMIL Timing Module attributes.
clipBegin may also be expressed as clip-begin for compatibility with SMIL 1.0. Software supporting the SMIL 2.1 Language Profile must be able to handle both clipBegin and clip-begin, whereas software supporting only the SMIL MediaClipping module only needs to support clipBegin. If an element contains both a clipBegin and a clip-begin attribute, then clipBegin takes precedence over clip-begin.
This section is informative.
<audio src="radio.wav" clip-begin="5s" clipBegin="10s" />
The clip begins at second 10 of the audio, and not at second 5, since the clip-begin attribute is ignored. A strict SMIL 1.0 implementation will start the clip at second 5 of the audio, since the clipBegin attribute will not be recognized by that implementation. See Changes to SMIL 1.0 Media Object Attributes for more discussion on this topic.
See Changes to SMIL 1.0 Media Object Attributes for more discussion on this topic.
This section is normative.
This section defines the attribute extensions that make up the SMIL MediaClipMarkers Module definition. Languages implementing elements and attributes found in the MediaClipMarkers module must implement all elements and attributes defined below, as well as BasicMedia and MediaClipping.
Clip-value-MediaClipMarkers ::= Clip-value-MediaClipping |
"marker" "=" URI-reference
/* "URI-reference" is defined in [URI] */
Example: Assume that a recorded radio transmission consists of a sequence of songs, which are separated by announcements by a disk jockey. The audio format supports marked time points, and the begin of each song or announcement with number X is marked as songX or djX respectively. To extract the first song using the "marker" metric, the following audio media element may be used:
<audio clipBegin="marker=#song1" clipEnd="marker=#dj1" />
This section is normative.
This section defines the elements and attributes that make up the SMIL BrushMedia Module definition. Languages implementing elements and attributes found in the BrushMedia module must implement all elements and attributes defined below.
The brush element is a lightweight media object element which allows an author to paint a solid color in place of a media object. Attributes associated with media objects may also be applied to brush element. (A specific profile will determine the attribute set applied to this element.)
Profiles including the BrushMedia module must provide semantics for using a color attribute value of inherit on the brush element. Because inherit doesn't make sense in all contexts, the value of inherit is prohibited on the color attribute of the brush element for profiles that do not otherwise define these semantics.
This section is normative.
This section defines the elements and attributes that make up the SMIL MediaAccessibility Module definition. Languages implementing elements and attributes found in the MediaAccessibility module must implement all elements and attributes defined below, as well as MediaDescription.
It is strongly recommended that all media object elements have an "alt" attribute with a brief, meaningful description. Authoring tools should ensure that no element may be introduced into a SMIL document without this attribute.
The value of this attribute is a CDATA text string.
Elements that contain alt, title or longdesc attributes are read by the assistive technology according to the following rules:
This section is informative.
<par> <video xml:id="carvideo" src="car.rm" region="videoregion" title="Car video" alt="Illustration of relativistic time dilation and length contraction." longdesc="carvideodesc.html" readIndex="3"/> <audio xml:id="caraudio" src="caraudio.rm" region="videoregion" title="Car presentation voiceover" begin="bar.begin"/> <animation xml:id="cardiagram" src="car.svg" region="animregion" title="Diagram of the car" readIndex="2"/>  </par>
In this example, an assistive device that is presenting titles should present the "scvad" element title first (having the lowest readIndex value of "1"), followed by the "cardiagram" title, followed by the "carvideo" element title, and finally present the "caraudio" element title (having an implicit readIndex value of "0").
Note that not all examples in this specification use all media accessibility attributes because the purpose of the sample code is to illustrate specific language features.
This section is normative.
This section defines the elements and attributes that make up the SMIL MediaDescription Module definition. Languages implementing elements and attributes found in the MediaDescription module must implement all elements and attributes defined below.
This attribute is deprecated in favor of using appropriate SMIL metadata markup in RDF. For example, this attribute maps well to the "description" attribute as defined by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative [DC] .
The value of this attribute is a CDATA text string.
The value of this attribute is a CDATA text string.
xml:lang differs from the systemLanguage test attribute in one important respect. xml:lang provides information about the content's language independent of what implementations do with the information, whereas systemLanguage is a test attribute with specific associated behavior (see systemLanguage in SMIL Content Control Module for details)
This section is informative.
SMIL 3.0 also supports the use of the element within the MetaInformation Module to supply additional or alternative forms of metainformation for any media object.
This section is normative.
This section is informative.
The SMIL MediaPanZoom module integrates the functionality of the SVG viewBox attribute and adapts it for use within the SMIL media framework. The SMIL panZoom attribute allows a SMIL author to define a two-dimensional extent over the visible surface of a media object and to subsequently project the contents within the panZoom area into a SMIL presentation.
Most of SMIL's layout elements and attributes provide the ability to define and manage a two-dimensional rendering space. This space is defined relative to a root-layout (or topLayout) specification. All of the coordinate and size specifications are in terms of the coordinate space defined for the layout root. In contrast, the panZoom attribute allows users to define an area in terms of the coordinate space used by the media object that is associated with the panZoom area. The panZoom area may be smaller, equal to, or larger than the related media object.
The following illustration shows three views of a 300x200 pixel image. In the left view, a panZoom area is shown that is the same size as the media object; in the middle view, a panZoom area is defined that covers the middle part of the image only; in the right view, a panZoom area is illustrated that is positioned (in both dimensions) partially outside the media object. Note that while this illustration shows the panZoom area projected onto an image, similar illustrations could be defined for videos or text objects, or any other object that may be mapped to a particular media bounding box.
Once a portion of a media object's visible area is defined with a panZoom area, the portion within the panZoom area is processed further as if it defined the full native view of the media object. The content within the panZoom area is projected into a region in a manner that is dependent on the region element associated with that object, including any scaling dictated by the fit attribute or (if appropriate), sub-region positioning and alignment directives.
If the region and the panZoom area have the same aspect ratios, then the panZoom area will, by default, fill the entire region. If the effective pixel dimensions of the region are larger than that of the panZoom area, the effect will be an enlargement of the media content. If the effective pixel dimensions of the window are smaller than that of the panZoom area, the effect will be a reduction in size of the media object. Other effects may be obtained by manipulating the fit attribute of the region.
If supported by the profile implementing this module, a dynamic pan-and-zoom effect may be obtained by applying standard SMIL animation primitives to the dimensions of the panZoom area. A pan effect may be obtained by varying the X and Y positioning values, and a zoom effect may be obtained by changing the size dimensions of the panZoom area. Examples of these effects are given later in this module description. Given the nature of independently animating collections of attribute values, care should be taken when specifying animation behavior.
If a panZoom area extends past the viewable extents of a media object (such as in the rightmost illustration, above), then the effective contents of these extended areas will be transparent.
This module does not define any new elements. It provides extensions to the ref element (and its synonyms), and to the region element.
The panZoom attribute is added to media object references.
The panZoom area is processed on the media object before any other SMIL layout processing occurs. The actual visual rendering of the content resulting from the processed panZoom area will be determined by, among other factors: the size of the target region, the application of sub-region positioning in that region (if supported by the profile), the value of the fit attribute on the region, and the effect of SMIL alignment attributes (if supported by the profile).
This section is informative.
If the profile integrating the panZoom element allows each of the attribute values to be animated, care should be taken to choose an animation calculation mode that will yield predictable results (such as using a linear mode). The animation of mixed percentage/pixel values for height and width is not recommended.
Note that the specification of negative values for left and top is not an error; this allows placing (a portion of) the panZoom area outside of the media.
The SMIL MediaPanZoom module does not extend the content model for the ref element integrating these attributes.
The panZoom attribute is added to regions definitions.
The SMIL MediaPanZoom module does not extend the content model for the region element integrating these attributes.
This section is informative.
Assume the following SMIL example:
<smil ...>  ... <layout> <root-layout height="200" width="300" backgroundColor="red" /> <region xml:id="I" top="0" left="0" height="200" width="300" backgroundColor="blue" /> </layout>   <seq> <ref xml:id="R1" src="table.jpg" panZoom="0,0,300,200" dur="5s" region="I" /> <ref xml:id="R2" src="table.jpg" panZoom="80,50,160,125" dur="5s" region="I" fit="meet"/> <ref xml:id="R3" src="table.jpg" panZoom="80,50,160,125" dur="5s" region="I" fit="meetBest"/> <ref xml:id="R4" src="table.jpg" panZoom="240,120,85,110" dur="5s" region="I" fit="meet"/> </seq>  </smil>
In this example, a single region is defined that is used to display four instances of the same image. Each media reference within the sequence S contains a different panZoom area definition, each of which will result in the following behavior:
Note that the origin of the sub-image defined by the panZoom area is placed at the origin of the top-left of the region. Note also that the value of the fit attribute determines that the image is scaled (while maintaining the aspect ratio), resulting in the zoom effect.
All of the previous examples illustrate how a panZoom area operates on a media object that contains a media-defined viewable extent. The panZoom attribute may also be applied to visual objects that do not have predefined extents. Consider the following example, in which an unstructured text object is placed in a region:
<smil ...>  ... <layout> <root-layout height="200" width="300" backgroundColor="red" /> <region xml:id="T" top="0" left="0" height="50" width="300" backgroundColor="blue" /> </layout>   <seq> <ref xml:id="R0" src="short_story.txt" panZoom="0,10,50,200" dur="10s" region="T" /> </seq>  </smil>
In this example, a single region is defined that is used to display a undimensioned text object. In SMIL 3.0, the text object would first be rendered to an off-screen bitmap based on the default settings for the media object (font, font size, font color) and then a panZoom area of the defined size would be overlaid on this text representation. This facility is especially useful when combined with SMIL Animation, as discussed in the next example.
The ability to define a panZoom area, when combined with SMIL animation primitives, provides a simple mechanism for doing pan/zoom animations over a visual object. (These pan/zoom animations are often called 'Ken Burns' animations.) The following example illustrates how a pan window may be positioned and moved over an image area:
<smil ...>  ... <layout> <root-layout height="200" width="300" backgroundColor="red" /> <region xml:id="B" top="0" left="0" height="50" width="75" backgroundColor="blue" /> </layout>   <seq> <ref xml:id="R0" src="table_233x150.jpg" panZoom="0,0,50,75" dur="20s" region="B" fit="meet" > <animate attributeName="panZoom" values="25,20,50,75; 45,55,50,75; 140,40,50,75; 35,0,100,150; 0,0,100,150" dur="20s" /> </ref> ... </seq>  </smil>
In this example, an image with intrinsic size of 233x150 pixels is rendered into a region of size 50x75. An initial panZoom area is defined that displays a 50x75 portion of that image, positioned in its top-left corner. During the following 20 seconds, the panZoom area is moved across the image according to the behavior of the animate element; the panZoom area changes are scheduled at equal points across the animation timeline (in this case, every 5 seconds). During the final animation, the panZoom area is extended to implement a zoom-out across the entire image. An illustration of the rendering results is shown below:
This module does not define any SMIL events.
The MediaPanZoom module allows individual media object references to override the default values for certain attributes. In all cases, the attributes will apply only to the (sub-)region referenced by the media object. Changes will not propagate to child sub-regions or to parent regions.
The functionality in this module builds on top of the functionality in the Media module, which is a required prerequisite for inclusion of the MediaPanZoom module.
The functionality in this module builds on the viewBox definition of SVG. Unlike SVG, the SMIL panZoom attribute defines a logical sub-image that contains only content within the panZoom area; SVG uses the viewBox to define a minimum viewing dimension for content, but allowing content outside the viewBox to be displayed in the region.
The MediaPanZoom module does not define a preserveAspectRatio attribute, since this functionality is already provided by the SMIL fit and registration/alignment attributes.
See the full DTD for the SMIL Layout modules.
This section is informative.
With regards to the clipBegin/clip-begin and clipEnd/clip-end elements, SMIL 3.0 defines the following changes to the syntax defined in SMIL 1.0:
Using attribute names with hyphens such as clip-begin and clip-end is problematic when using a scripting language and the DOM to manipulate these attributes. Therefore, this specification adds the attribute names clipBegin and clipEnd as an equivalent alternative to the SMIL 1.0 clip-begin and clip-end attributes. The attribute names with hyphens are deprecated.
Authors may use two approaches for writing SMIL 3.0 presentations that use the new clipping syntax and functionality ("marker", default metric) defined in this specification, but can still can be handled by SMIL 1.0 software. First, authors may use non-hyphenated versions of the new attributes that use the new functionality, and add SMIL 1.0 conformant clipping attributes later in the text.
<audio src="radio.wav" clipBegin="marker=song1" clipEnd="marker=moderator1" clip-begin="npt=0s" clip-end="npt=3:50" />
SMIL 1.0 players implementing the recommended extensibility rules of SMIL 1.0 [SMIL10] will ignore the clip attributes using the new functionality, since they are not part of SMIL 1.0. SMIL 3.0 players, in contrast, will ignore the clip attributes using SMIL 1.0 syntax, because the SMIL 3.0 syntax takes precedence over the SMIL 1.0 syntax.
The second approach is to use the following steps:
<smil xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL" version="3.0" baseProfile="Language"> ... <switch> <audio src="radio.wav" clipBegin="marker=song1" clipEnd="marker=moderator1" system-required="smil2" /> <audio src="radio.wav" clip-begin="npt=0s" clip-end="npt=3:50" /> </switch>


text:
Shooting the Breeze with Bartender Helen Houck
August 25, 2011
Helen Houck behind the bar
If you're new to the Lab, or just passing through, or your beamline is down and there's nothing to do, chances are, you've met Helen.
Helen Houck is the full-time bartender at the Brookhaven Center, which means she also serves in the roles of part-time psychologist, counselor, entertainer, and "den mother" to many of Brookhaven's scientists, students, and employees.
As the sole social and gastronomic hub at BNL on weekday evenings, the Center is aptly named. But a lot of the folks who spend time there after hours don't go for the burgers and beer, they go to see Helen.
From students and visitors fresh off the plane to 30-year career Brookhaven researchers, the scenery at the Center is as diverse as most bars ever get, and changes daily as well as seasonally.
"This is a very unique environment, and it's different every evening," says Helen. "I have my regulars and all, but you never know what to expect when working at the Brookhaven Center. Some days are slow and very quiet, but then there are times when it's just a swirl of people from all different cultures and scientific backgrounds, and at the end of the night I've got equations and drawings all over the cocktail napkins with notations written in five different languages."
Before she came to Brookhaven to work in catering and then at the Center full-time, Helen's bartending resume included pulling drafts for bikers at a place called Gunther's bar (where a "pina colada" equals a shot of rum poured in a light beer), as well as mixing martinis and uncorking wine for the much more conservative customers at various fine-dining establishments.
More notoriously, Helen served Richard Nixon at a Northport joint where she worked evenings while serving in the Coast Guard. And years later, she once refused to clear the dining room for a "very bratty" Mariah Carey (and her exasperating entourage) when Helen was floor manager of the now-defunct Rock Hopper's club in Centerport.
As a bartender, Helen's experience runs the gambit. But regulars at the Brookhaven Center don't just count on Helen to prescribe concoctions for whatever ails them (though that sometimes factors in), they also visit her for a more cerebral kind of solace. As a mother of three, an ex-military woman now married to a mathematics teacher, a former sail-maker, a self-described "discoverer of rainbows," (and, of course, a veteran of the food industry), Helen tends to shed a different light on the topic of the day than the typical Laboratory barfly.
As one of Helen's long-time customers, Karen Liebermann, says, "It's just good to come here and talk to Helen at the end of the day because she knows so much about so many things. I often stop by just because I know she'll be here. She's got lots of great stories — and she's a good sounding board."
Because of Helen's lifelong residence in New York and her affinity for Long Island, it's ironic that the drink she most dislikes happens to be an L.I.T. (Long Island Iced Tea, traditionally made with vodka, gin, tequila, rum, and Triple Sec). But given the many other roles she plays as Brookhaven's bartender, that makes sense. According to Helen, "I hate making L.I.T.s because of the extreme amount of alcohol in just one drink. I think people — especially young people — order L.I.T.s as a party-starter because they're very cheap and you can barely taste how much [alcohol] is really in them. I guess I just get maternal about it."
Although Brookhaven Lab's commuting population tends to head straight for the road after a long day at work, many scientists and students who visit here, especially those without a car, fondly remember the Center as where they went for a warm welcome and a comfy place to sit down for a while — a place like home — and Helen is a big part of providing it.
When you go and meet her in person, treat yourself to a dirty martini, Helen's own favorite. Feel free to strike up a conversation and doodle on the cocktail napkins. And come back soon.
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Originally pubclished on Shafiqah's Othman's blog, Forever Young.
By Shafiqah Othman
I saw a tweet yesterday that said we had to stop Syiah from spreading because all Shiites are inherently violent people. So I wrote this tweet (which I then deleted):
"Jangan bagi Syiah berkembang sebab Syiah kejam? Kalau macam tu, Sunni pun jangan berkembang lah sebab puak ISIS tu semua Sunni." (Don't let Syiah spread because they are evil? If that's the case, Sunni Muslims shouldn't spread either because ISIS are Sunni Muslims.)
The kind of people that were found in my mentions:
Almost immediately, I had people giving my name to @PDRMsia because apparently I was trying to wreak havoc and tarnish the name of Islam.
I honestly thought my point was pretty straightforward.
If you don't want a bunch of violent Muslims (in this case, ISIS) to represent all Muslims, why let a bunch of violent Shiites represent those who are Syiah? How many of us actually know a Shiite personally?
I would like to redirect everyone to an infamous interview that Reza Aslan did on CNN (click link for YouTube video) regarding Islam and violence:
To the people who got so offended when I linked ISIS to Islam, please learn to accept the fact that they are our problem now. Although I do believe that ISIS was probably created on political grounds, we have to understand that soldiers who were recruited were made to believe that they are fighting for a cause, for Islam, for jihad.
Saying "ISIS isn't Islamic!" does not solve anything. We're only ignoring the glaring problem here, that is religious fundamentalism. People like ISIS believe in a different interpretation of Islam, a rather violent one, and they believe that whatever they're doing is leading them to the "true" path.
Most of us believe that what ISIS is doing is not Islamic for it is against the essence of the faith that is compassion and mercy. However, this does not change the fact that they still identify as Muslims. Saying they are not doesn't simply make them non-Muslims.
To eradicate them, or at least stop people from wanting to join them, we have to first acknowledge that there is a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam out there. Muslim terrorist groups like ISIS, Al-Qaeda and the likes are following these interpretations.
Saying ISIS are not Muslims is like saying the Crusaders weren't Christians. They were all very much driven by religion.
We cannot simply say, "ISIS isn't our problem." As much as I want to believe so too, unfortunately, they very much are. As Muslims, we cannot simply wash them off our hands. It won't make them go away. We're only condoning in silence if we do. We have to fight against this violent ideology of Islam. We have to create a counter-narrative. But it's going to be difficult trying to do so in Malaysia, and let me tell you why.
Radicalism does not only come in the form of bloodshed but can also be spread through diffused fundamentalism. I have written about this before here.
"Most people associate Islamism and Muslim fundamentalism with violence, advances that are physical. But there is one type of fundamentalism that is just as deadly, and that fundamentalism is given the term "diffused fundamentalism." This kind of fundamentalism is naturalised into your daily lives, and most times we don't even realise it.
They are absorbed and then spread through Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, the internet, television, radio, sermons and word of mouth."
There is a reason why I used ISIS as a comparison to Sunni Muslims. How many of us actually knew that ISIS started off as Sunni Muslims trying to kill off all Shiites? In Malaysia, we are taught that Shiites are evil, or even worse, that their blood is halal, but at the same time, we condemn the killings done by ISIS. Do you see the paradox?
We are condemning the very thing that we let happen here. And sure, the Sunni vs. Syiah divide in Malaysia hasn't reached a point of mass murder, but these teachings that demonise the Shiites are the seeds that will eventually grow into militant thinking, into people like ISIS. We already have Malaysians leaving the country to join the terrorist group.
It genuinely scares me to think about the damage that ISIS has caused to the name of Islam, and how little we are doing to stop it. It isn't enough to just throw around a few verses of the Qur'an that teaches peace, saying you don't support ISIS because the Qur'an said so and so, but at the same time support the persecution and discrimination of Shiites. That's not how it works. You don't just say you're against violence. You have to act upon it too.
The first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge that we have one. In the words of Iyad El-Baghdadi, "ISIS is not a wound to Islam, it is a cancer from within." It is something that we have to fix from amongst ourselves, but how are we supposed to do that when we're always at each other's throats?
Last weekend, I was given the honour to be a part of a conference on countering radicalism. A few days prior to the event, some Islamist groups tried to shut us down. Some of their followers even went on to say that our blood was "halal" if we were killed.
But still, the event went on as planned. While the conference was running, news of the Paris attacks started surfacing.
It seemed ironic to me that Islamist groups tried to stop a discussion on countering radicalism, and right then, an act of terror was carried out in the name of Islam. While the attacks were devastating, I also felt that it was timely (for a lack of better word) to show that it is high-time that we acknowledge the rising radicalisation of Muslims.
The whole point of my tweet was not to say who's religious practices are right or wrong, the Sunni Muslims or Shiites. It wasn't a battle of theology. It was simply a plea to stop generalising people. It breaks my heart to see us fight each other instead of the common enemy.
Statistics below say that 11% of Malaysians are in favour of ISIS while 25% are still undecided. Do you know how extremely worrying those numbers are? I am genuinely afraid.
Here is something written by Iyad El-Baghdadi on his Twitter that eloquently put what I feel into writing:
"It's no secret that we have a crisis of values in Islam. The word "Islamic" means very different things even to different Muslims.
Consider: Muslims can be some of the kindest and most compassionate people around – and cite Islam as their inspiration. But: Other Muslims can be some of the most evil, depraved, and bloodthirsty people around – and (also) cite Islam as their inspiration.
In response to ISIS, we had a much-needed debate about what is or isn't Islamic. But that debate quickly took a wrong turn. The debate over "what's Islamic" came to naught because it ended up being a tussle over traditions and history, rather than values.
The fact is, Islamic studies lack an explicit, formal, objective value system. It's traditionally been more concerned with rules than values. Our dominant Islamic paradigm is obsessed with rulings and very wary of talking about values beyond the context of rulings. This dominant paradigm not only limits understanding and interpretation – it kicks off a confirmation bias that keeps it firmly in place. We end up with an Islam that tries to extract as many rules as possible, rather than compile and assert a coherent set of core values.
The Qur'an does indeed provide an objective, concrete value system, but we fail to see it because we go in looking for rules, not values. Fiqh is a particular case in point. It's an integrated, sophisticated methodology to extract rulings from source texts. Rulings, not values. That's not to say that fiqh scholars are unconcerned with values – but the fiqh methodology itself, in dominant schools, in value-neutral.
Islamic classical scholarship presents us with a formal legislative framework but does not present us with a formal, explicit value system.
And with ISIS pushing us, I hope we may be witnessing a major cultural shift from a rule-centric Islam to a value-centric Islam. I hope. It won't be easy; it's a monumental task. But it's absolutely essential if we want to salvage and recover our faith and our humanity.
Just a final note: Historically, what is or isn't mainstream has been a function of power, not of truth. And power balances shifts."
Please, let's just stop the needless fighting with each other. At a time like this where Islamophobia is on the rise, we Muslims have to stick together more than ever. The enemy is religious radicalism. Not your own Muslim brothers and sisters.
Shafiqa Othman works for Sisters in Islam in Malaysia, and with the international Musawah network. Shafiqa attended WELDD's workshop on "Culturally-Justified Violence Against Women: Resistance and Sustaining Our Activism" in Jakarta, Indonesia in August 2014.


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Thank you. Thank you, my friends. Thank you for coming here on this beautiful Arizona evening.
My friends, we have -- we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly.
A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him.
To congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love.
In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in the election of an American president is something I deeply admire and commend him for achieving.
This is an historic election, and I recognize the special significance it has for African-Americans and for the special pride that must be theirs tonight.
I've always believed that America offers opportunities to all who have the industry and will to seize it. Senator Obama believes that, too.
But we both recognize that, though we have come a long way from the old injustices that once stained our nation's reputation and denied some Americans the full blessings of American citizenship, the memory of them still had the power to wound.
A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt's invitation of Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House was taken as an outrage in many quarters.
MCCAIN: America today is a world away from the cruel and frightful bigotry of that time. There is no better evidence of this than the election of an African-American to the presidency of the United States.
Let there be no reason now...
Let there be no reason now for any American to fail to cherish their citizenship in this, the greatest nation on Earth.
Senator Obama has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it, and offer him my sincere sympathy that his beloved grandmother did not live to see this day. Though our faith assures us she is at rest in the presence of her creator and so very proud of the good man she helped raise.
Senator Obama and I have had and argued our differences, and he has prevailed. No doubt many of those differences remain.
These are difficult times for our country. And I pledge to him tonight to do all in my power to help him lead us through the many challenges we face.
I urge all Americans...
I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.
Whatever our differences, we are fellow Americans. And please believe me when I say no association has ever meant more to me than that.
MCCAIN: It is natural. It's natural, tonight, to feel some disappointment. But tomorrow, we must move beyond it and work together to get our country moving again.
We fought -- we fought as hard as we could. And though we feel short, the failure is mine, not yours.
AUDIENCE: No!
MCCAIN: I am so...
MCCAIN: I am so deeply grateful to all of you for the great honor of your support and for all you have done for me. I wish the outcome had been different, my friends.
AUDIENCE MEMBER: We do, too (OFF-MIKE)
MCCAIN: The road was a difficult one from the outset, but your support and friendship never wavered. I cannot adequately express how deeply indebted I am to you.
I'm especially grateful to my wife, Cindy, my children, my dear mother...
... my dear mother and all my family, and to the many old and dear friends who have stood by my side through the many ups and downs of this long campaign.
I have always been a fortunate man, and never more so for the love and encouragement you have given me.
You know, campaigns are often harder on a candidate's family than on the candidate, and that's been true in this campaign.
MCCAIN: All I can offer in compensation is my love and gratitude and the promise of more peaceful years ahead.
I am also -- I am also, of course, very thankful to Governor Sarah Palin, one of the best campaigners I've ever seen...
... one of the best campaigners I have ever seen, and an impressive new voice in our party for reform and the principles that have always been our greatest strength...
... her husband Todd and their five beautiful children...
... for their tireless dedication to our cause, and the courage and grace they showed in the rough and tumble of a presidential campaign.
We can all look forward with great interest to her future service to Alaska, the Republican Party and our country.
To all my campaign comrades, from Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, to every last volunteer who fought so hard and valiantly, month after month, in what at times seemed to be the most challenged campaign in modern times, thank you so much. A lost election will never mean more to me than the privilege of your faith and friendship.
I don't know -- I don't know what more we could have done to try to win this election. I'll leave that to others to determine. Every candidate makes mistakes, and I'm sure I made my share of them. But I won't spend a moment of the future regretting what might have been.
This campaign was and will remain the great honor of my life, and my heart is filled with nothing but gratitude for the experience and to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding that Senator Obama and my old friend Senator Joe Biden should have the honor of leading us for the next four years.
(BOOING) Please. Please.
I would not -- I would not be an American worthy of the name should I regret a fate that has allowed me the extraordinary privilege of serving this country for a half a century.
MCCAIN: Today, I was a candidate for the highest office in the country I love so much. And tonight, I remain her servant. That is blessing enough for anyone, and I thank the people of Arizona for it.
MCCAIN: Tonight -- tonight, more than any night, I hold in my heart nothing but love for this country and for all its citizens, whether they supported me or Senator Obama -- whether they supported me or Senator Obama.
I wish Godspeed to the man who was my former opponent and will be my president. And I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.
Americans never quit. We never surrender.
We never hide from history. We make history.
Thank you, and God bless you, and God bless America. Thank you all very much.
John McCain, Address in Phoenix Conceding the 2008 Presidential Election Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/285089


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