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Graphics Shootout on the Web. Jacco van Ossenbruggen Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction CWI Amsterdam http://www.cwi.nl/~jrvosse/. SMIL is about timing…. not just graphics…. … combining Web resources…. in an XML syntax. SMIL. Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language.
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Graphics Shootout on the Web Jacco van Ossenbruggen Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction CWI Amsterdam http://www.cwi.nl/~jrvosse/
SMIL is about timing… not just graphics… … combining Web resources… in an XML syntax SMIL SynchronizedMultimediaIntegrationLanguage
Beyond SMIL 1.0 • SMIL 1.0 provides: • an XML document type for multimedia presentations on the Web • SMIL Boston provides: • extensions to SMIL 1.0, but more importantly: • a framework for timing in other XML languages • See SVG Animation, HTML+SMIL • Future (?!): WML+SMIL, …
For more info on SMIL and related specifications • http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
Things I hear around me (1) • The X Recommendation doesn’t even do this! • We’re working on that, it will be in the next version • Not good enough, my customers are waiting for this, I need it now!
Things I hear around me (2) • The X Recommendation doesn’t even do this! • No, but X was never designed to do that • So what Recommendation should I use? • W3C is setting up a working group to address this • Arghh!
Things I hear around me (3) • The X Recommendation doesn’t even do this! • No, but you can do that easily combining these recommendations over here • Why doesn’t it say so?
Conclusions • SMIL is about time and synchronization • We need more features and standards, not fewer • We need to • explain the scope of a Recommendations better • suggest how you solve problems that are out of scope • explain how Recommendations should be used in combination