hypertext, language, multimedia, text, World-Wide Web (SMIL)
enables people without programming or scripting backgrounds to
author multimedia presentations in a simple
text editor.
For example, a developer can write SMIL to display an
imageafter 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.
(2000-04-21)