The Future of SMIL
The W3C (World Wide Web consortium) sports the following motto: "Release early, release often." It's a sage maxim to follow when changing the development course of a Web standard. The most recent release of SMIL (SMIL Boston) by the W3C Working Group demonstrates why getting a preliminary model out early is so important.
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) was introduced in July of 1998. This mark-up language enables Web multimedia authors to schedule presentations so that users experience images, sounds, and text as a choreographed

