Since the draft of the SMIL standard in 1995 many organizations implement one of the available versions of the W3C SMIL standard in there end-user products. Macromedia, RealNetworks and Microsoft have some products supporting the SMIL standards, but especially Microsoft with the more dominant role in the browser market have failed to support SMIL fully in the in the past. With Internet Explorer 6 many functions of SMIL did work, but will this be the same for Internet Explorer 7 and even 8 is something that we look at in this review of SMIL and Micosoft
"As you may have gathered, the format is a bit different from what you may be accustomed to when writing an XML document. This is because you need to follow the specification used for captioning set by the World Wide Web Consortium, and the XML document prepared for use with the captioning component must follow that standard.You will notice that you can set the styling for the text, and that each caption needs to have a start and an end point. This means each caption must have a begin attribute, which determines when the caption should appear. If the
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