Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

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Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
File extension: .smil
MIME type: application/smil
Developed by: World Wide Web Consortium
Type of format: Markup language
Standard(s): SMIL 1.0 (Recommendation)
SMIL 2.0 Second Edition (Recommendation)
SMIL 2.1 (Recommendation)

SMIL (pronounced IPA: /ˈsmaɪl/ or "smile"), the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C Recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things. Some of the things that SMIL is used for are to create slide-show presentations and the SMIL technology has the ability to display multiple file types like text, video, and audio. SMIL is similar to an HTML like language that is written in XML and has options like containing links to other SMIL presentations and buttons such as stop, start and next. SMIL was developed in 1997 and can display presentations from multiple web servers.

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[edit] Version history

As of 2007 the current W3C Recommendation for SMIL is SMIL 2.1.

[edit] SMIL 3.0

SMIL 3.0 was submitted as a W3C Working draft on December 21, 2006.[1] The most recent revision was released on July 13, 2007.

[edit] SMIL 2.1

SMIL 2.1 became a W3C Recommendation in December 2005. SMIL 2.1 includes a small number of extensions based on practical experience gathered using SMIL in the Multimedia Messaging System on mobile phones.

[edit] SMIL 2.0

SMIL 2.0 became a W3C Recommendation in August 2001. SMIL 2.0 introduced a modular language structure that facilitated integration of SMIL semantics into other XML-based languages. Basic animation and timing modules were integrated into Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and the SMIL modules formed a basis for Timed-Text. The modular structure made it possible to define the standard SMIL language profile and the XHTML+SMIL language profile with common syntax and standard semantics.

[edit] SMIL 1.0

SMIL 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation in June 1998.

[edit] SMIL documents

A SMIL document is similar in structure to an HTML document in that they are typically divided between an optional <head> section and a required <body> section. The <head> section contains layout and metadata information. The <body> section contains the timing information, and is generally comprised of combinations of two main tags - parallel ("<par>") and sequential ("<seq>"). SMIL refers to media objects by URLs, allowing them to be shared between presentations and stored on different servers for load balancing. The language can also associate different media objects with different bandwidths.

[edit] File extension

SMIL files take either a .smi or .smil file extension. However, SAMI files also use .smi, which creates some ambiguity at first glance. As a result, SMIL files commonly use the .smil file extension to avoid confusion.

[edit] Status of SMIL

SMIL is being implemented on handheld and mobile devices and has also spawned the subset known as Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) which is a video and picture equivalent of SMS. MMS is also jokingly called "Mini-Me SMIL" by multimedia technicians in the mobile content industry.

SMIL is also one of the underlying technologies used by HD DVD for advanced interactivity.

[edit] SMIL player software

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Standards of the World Wide Web Consortium
Recommendations CSS · CGI · DOM · HTML · RDF · SVG · SOAP · SMIL · SRGS · SSML · VoiceXML · WSDL · XACML · XHTML · XML · XML Events · XForms · XML Information Set · XML Schema (W3C) · XPath · XQuery · XSL Transformations · XLink · XML Base · SISR · OWL · MathML · RDF Schema · Timed Text ·
Notes XHTMLplusSMIL
Working Drafts CURIE · CCXML · InkML · XFrames · XFDL  · Web Integration Compound Document  · XHTMLplusMathMLplusSVG
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