Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language


Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

(hypertext, language, multimedia, text, World-Wide Web)(SMIL)A language based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), thatenables people without programming or scripting backgrounds toauthor 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 imageafter an audio track ends.

SMIL uses two main tags: parallel and sequential. It refersto media objects by URLs, allowing them to be shared betweenpresentations and stored on different servers for load balancing. The language can also associate different mediaobjects with different bandwidths.

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

W3C.