You have already seen an overview of G2/SMIL technology, URls for all the tools you’ll need and a detailed G2/SMIL Tutorial if you have been following our series of articles on SMIL/G2, The first tutorial covered the SMIL language and RealPix and enabled you to get started creating your own SMIL presentations if you were able to follow through. We’ll cover Real Text, and show you how to use it along with RealPix in your SMIL presentations. In this tutorial. we consulted RealNetworks RealText Creation Guide To get started we used the Real
My wife is a tenderfoot in the Web development arena. Imagine how surprised I was when, after just earning her certificate in Web design, she sprung this revelation on me: "HTML is going to be replaced by SMIL." I thought, "Who do you think you're talking to, sister?"
I reckon I was most put off because I wasn't sure I knew exactly what SMIL was.
Structured Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is to multimedia developers what HTML is to linked-content developers. I remember reading about SMIL a few years back, but I recall thinking that it
SMIL 2.0, the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, has begun to establish itself as an important new approach for integrating multimedia into Web content. SMIL, which offers XML-based approaches for controlling the timing and presentation of multimedia elements, has begun to attract the support of many large software vendors and toolmakers, making it increasingly accessible for developers. In this article, Anne Zieger provides an overview of SMIL and describes several tools available to make SMIL coding simpler.
For developers outside the
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