SMIL / Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Using This Markup Language to Create Complex Multimedia Websites"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

SMIL / Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language is a standard method for web designers and developers to synchronize the multimedia elements presented by a web site. The first release of SMIL / Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language was in June 1998.

SMIL / Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (pronounced "smile") meets the needs of web developers who have sites with a lot of audio, animation and movie files. They can coordinate the timing of how those file become active.

If you simply embed the files into your site with ordinary HTML coding, then you are at the mercy of the downloading speed and coordination of your site visitor's web browser. Maybe it will start the audio file before your clever animation has finished loading.

SMIL / Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language can accommodate different bandwidth requirements, since most Internet residents still use a 56K dialup modem

You can also use SMIL / Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language to position your multimedia presentations on the web page and to coordinate the display based on user preferences, language etc. It is based on XML but kept simple enough so that anyone who can learn HTML can also learn it.

You can write SMIL / Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language with a simple text editor such as Wordpad or VIM.

Just like HTML, these documents begin and end with the <smil> and </smil> tags, and have Head and Body sections too.

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