Jeffery Zeldman has long been considered the King of Web Standards. In this article for A List Apart back in 2001 he talked a little bit about SMIL and what it would mean for web standards and accessibility.
"SMIL stands for “Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language,” and is pronounced “Smile.” Isn’t that cute? Oh, shut up.
SMIL is an easy-to-learn, HTML-like language for creating “TV-like multimedia presentations such as training courses on the web,” according to the W3C. The current SMIL recommendation is 1.0, and you can read all
Think about how many times a day you use forms, electronic or otherwise. On the Web, forms have become commonplace for search engines, polls, surveys, electronic commerce, and even on-line applications. Nearly all user interaction on the Web is through forms of some sort. This ubiquitous technology, however, is showing its age. It predates XML by half a decade, which is a contributing factor to some of its limitations:
Poor integration with XML
Limited features make even common tasks dependent on scripting
Device dependent, running well only on
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If you TRULY think that Flash is accessible, then you have just lost any credibility with me (as a professional web developer). Show me how Flash is accessible (to everyone, not just disabilities). It requires a plugin, and is virtually blind to a very important visitor - the search bot. Flash STILL has not come up to par with being optimized with searching and search engines.
Flash tries to replace the medium itself and remove the browser. Though some of these are due to poor development practices, please show me
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