from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
<hypertext, language, multimedia, text, World-Wide Web> (SMIL)
A language based on {Extensible Markup Language} (XML), that
enables people without programming or scripting backgrounds to
author 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 {image}
after 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 {load
balancing}. The language can also associate different media
objects with different bandwidths.
SMIL 1.0 became an official recommendation of the {World Wide
Web Consortium} W3C in June 1998.
W3C (http://w3c.org/audiovideo/).
(2000-04-21)