An introduction to the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

Author

Hoschka, P.

Author_Institution

WWW Consortium, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Volume

5

Issue

4

fYear

1998

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

88

Abstract

The Web, now a multimedia environment, can handle audio, images, text and video. However, creating TV-like multimedia presentations proves difficult. It either requires complex, timer-based programming in a scripting language (such as Javascript) or an authoring tool for multimedia presentations. To allow a broader audience to author multimedia presentations for the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium developed the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. SMIL, an easy-to-learn HTML-like language, allows the use of a text editor to write multimedia presentations. SMIL is a W3C recommendation, and several implementations are available. This article explains how to write a multimedia presentation in SMIL

Keywords

Internet; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; multimedia systems; synchronisation; HTML; SMIL; Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language; Web; World Wide Web Consortium; audio; authoring tool; images; multimedia presentations; scripting language; text; text editor; video; Code standards; Computer science; HTML; Layout; Multimedia systems; Prototypes; Scheduling; Standards development; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

MultiMedia, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-986X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/93.735872

Filename

735872