HTML background and scrollbar

Hello everybody,

according to http://w
ww.cwi.nl/projects/Ambulant/FAQ.html
in the release 1.6 of Ambulant "rendering of HTML
media items has been 
added, although with restrictions".
So I'm trying to figure out those
"restrictions", specially those 
regarding formatted text.

I've tested AmbulantPlayer 1.6.2 for Windows and Linux and
it seems 
that:
- Ambulant for Linux doesn't support HTML at all;
- HTML media can't have a transparent background;
- HTML media is always rendered with a vertical scrollbar
(even when    
  unnecessary).
Does anybody have different resultances?

As said before, I'm searching for a way to include
formatted text in 
the SMIL document. But RealText is not supported and HTML
text 
(because of the non-transparent background) is not
integrable with 
other elements.
Any idea/advice?

Thanks in advance
Paolo

-- 
Paolo Vaccari
DISIT-DSI
  Distributed Systems and Internet Technology Lab
  Department of Systems and Informatics
University of Florence
Via S. Marta, 3
50139 Firenze - Italy
Phone: +39 055 4796425

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On 2-aug-2006, at 18:29, Paolo Vaccari wrote:
> I've tested AmbulantPlayer 1.6.2 for Windows and Linux
and it seems
> that:
> - Ambulant for Linux doesn't support HTML at all;
> - HTML media can't have a transparent background;
> - HTML media is always rendered with a vertical
scrollbar (even when
>   unnecessary).
> Does anybody have different resultances?

These are indeed some of the restrictions with the HTML
renderer on  
Windows. A few others are:
- HTML media cannot be used in transitions
- HTML media will always appear on top of all other media,  
disregarding the SMIL layout z-ordering.

Most of these restrictions are also true for the Mac HTML
renderer.

Just in case someone here has anything to contribute: the
problem is  
that we're using the operating-system supplied HTML
renderer (the IE- 
based CHtmlView class in case of Windows, and the
Safari/WebKit based  
one on the mac), and both of these render to their own
widget. So the  
only way to make this visible is  by overlaying it on top of
the  
Ambulant SMIL widget. But because the HTML is in its own
widget that  
means transparency doesn't work, and neither do z-ordering,
 
transitions, etc.
--
Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansencwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your
revolution -- Emma  
Goldman


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