SMIL 3.0 Candidate Recommendation

The W3C Synchronized Multimedia Working Group has posted the candidate recommendation of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 3.0 (SMIL 3.0). SMIL 3.0 has four goals:

• Define an XML-based language that allows authors to write interactive multimedia presentations. Using SMIL, an author can describe the temporal behaviour of a multimedia presentation, associate hyperlinks with media objects and describe the layout of the presentation on a screen.


• Extend the functionalities contained in the SMIL 2.1 into new or revised SMIL 3.0 modules.


• Allow reusing of SMIL syntax and semantics in other XML-based languages, in particular those who need to represent timing and synchronization. For example, SMIL components are used for integrating timing into XHTML and into SVG.


• Define new SMIL 3.0 Profiles incorporating features useful within the industry.

Source - cafeconleche.org