Re: Work in progress documentation design

[Petr Kovar <pmkovar gnome org>]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 16:50:54 -0400
Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 20:00 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 16:17 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> > > Keeping the videos up to date is considerably more work than
> > > maintaining static SVGs. 
> >
> > If I interpret that correctly: If the videos received more maintenance
> > there'd be no reason to potentially remove them, but there's no problem
> > with having those videos (size, content, etc) per se.
>
> Regarding size, we could probably have much smaller videos using SVG
> animations, rather than rendering them into WebM. A few issues, most of
> which are probably solvable:
>
> 1) Yelp doesn't recognize SVG animations as something you can have video
> controls on to play, pause, restart, etc.
>
> 2) Yelp doesn't recognize SVG animations as something you can put TTML
> subtitles on.

This shouldn't be an issue, we only use subtitles as a workaround because
we can't ship translated videos for all the languages available in GNOME.
The tarball would be too big.

I like the idea of using animated SVGs, with video controls.
 
pk