As the moon orbits around the Earth, it maintains a constant tilt of approximately 6.7 degrees with respect to its orbital plane. The small red dot represents the moon’s axis of rotation. The moon revolves around the Earth in a counterclockwise direction, following its elliptical orbit. To know more about the license, please check our license page for more informtion. The Earth is located at the center of the animation. The ' Earth' spinner is released under loading.io pro License.
Since we provide GIF / CSS as alternatives to the SVG animation, you are free to choose what format to use in your own projects however, we still think SMIL is a powerful language, and you can help it to gain more popularity by using SMIL with your project. Furthermore, since Microsoft Edge has officially changed it's engine to Chromium, you can think SMIL as it has been supported by all modern browsers. SMIL includes features that can not be replaced with CSS Animation, and there are still people using SMIL all over the world. We use SVG SMIL when animating our SVG spinner, and you might have noticed that Chrome once deprecated SMIL several years ago.Īlthough Chrome tended to deprecate SMIL, this action was suspended. Is it supported in latest version of Microsoft Edge?ĭoes it work in tag or background-image CSS style?