I am trying to reanimate project made ten years ago. SMIL2 was successfully used in IE6.

I have found that IE8 still supports SMIL, however nor t:media, nor t:audio elements do not play audio/media content any more.

Here is simple example that works OK in IE6 (under VirtualPC) but has issues in IE8

<html xmlns:t="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:time">
<t:audio src="LoopyMusic.wav" repeatCount="indefinite" type="wav" />

Another notice - in case if t:audio is included into sequence (t:seq) - element after t:audio never starts it's effects.

Are there any known issues/workarounds with SMIL support under internet explorer 8?


Use a closing tag instead of an empty tag and add the timecontainer attribute, since IE8 enforces stricter syntax:

<t:audio src="LoopyMusic.wav" repeatCount="indefinite" type="wav" timecontainer="par"></t:audio>


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