The SMIL format can help a person to create a presentation, by integrating independent multimedia objects and synchronizing them. SMIL allows it's users to define the behavior of the presentation in time, describe how the presentation will look on the screen and associate hyperlinks to the media objects.
Basically, the SMIL documents are of XML 1.0 type, so if you want to learn how to use SMIL, it's best to first learn XML.
A SMIL document is made of two parts: the head and the body of the document.
The head element contains
SMIL known as Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language is used for time based delivery of multimedia content over web. It is possible to mix different multimedia elements such as text, video, graphics, audio, and vector based animation and synchronizes them to a timeline for delivery. SMIL is a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation.
Using SMIL a user can describe the behavior of the presentation, describe the layout of the presentation and associate the media objects in the presentation with hyperlinks. Basically SMIL is a XML document with
On June 15, 1998, the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) released the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language Specification 1.0, or SMIL, as a recommendation. SMIL, an XML extension, is intended to allow the easy implementation of sophisticated time-based multimedia content on the Web.
According to the WC3's recommendation, SMIL allows a developer to "describe the temporal behavior of a presentation, describe the layout of the presentation on a screen, and associate hyperlinks with media objects." Because SMIL is a relatively simple declarative
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