My wife is a tenderfoot in the Web development arena. Imagine how surprised I was when, after just earning her certificate in Web design, she sprung this revelation on me: "HTML is going to be replaced by SMIL." I thought, "Who do you think you're talking to, sister?"
I reckon I was most put off because I wasn't sure I knew exactly what SMIL was.
Structured Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is to multimedia developers what HTML is to linked-content developers. I remember reading about SMIL a few years back, but I recall thinking that it
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
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 2.0 (SMIL 2.0) is an XML-based language that allows authors to describe the temporal behavior of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen.
Rather than being formulated as a standalone multimedia vocabulary (like SMIL 1.0), SMIL 2.0 syntax and semantics may be reused in other XML-based languages, as when SMIL components are used for integrating timing into eXstensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) or Scalable Vector
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