Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

hypertext, language, multimedia, text, World-Wide Web (SMIL)

A language based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), that

enables people without programming or scripting backgrounds to

author multimedia presentations in a simple text editor.

SMIL is suitable for use on the World-Wide Web.

For example, a developer can write SMIL to display an image

after an audio track ends.

SMIL uses two main tags: parallel and sequential. It refers

to media objects by URLs, allowing them to be shared between

presentations and stored on different servers for loadbalancing. The language can also associate different media

objects with different bandwidths.

SMIL 1.0 became an official recommendation of the World WideWeb Consortium W3C in June 1998.

W3C .

(2000-04-21)