Einführung

Take Just SMIL with you!Die Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) ist ein auf XML basierender, von dem Externer LinkWorld Wide Web Consortium (W3C) entwickelter Vorschlag für eine neue Markup-Sprache für zeitsynchronisierte, multimediale Inhalte.

W3CDas W3C veröffentlichte im Juni 1998 die erste offizielle Empfehlung für SMIL 1.0; es handelt sich damit um einen potentiellen Web-Standard.

Get the free RealPlayer G2Externer LinkRealNetworks, der Anbieter von RealAudio- und RealVideo-Technologien, bietet derzeit (Stand: Julit 1998) bereits die erste Implementation eines SMIL-Players an.


SMIL-Definition

»Short for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, a new markup language being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that would enable Externer LinkWeb developers to divide multimedia content into separate Externer Linkfiles and Externer Linkstreams (audio, video, text, and images), send them to a user's computer individually, and then have them displayed together as if they were a single Externer Linkmultimedia stream. The ability to separate out the static text and images should make the multimedia content much smaller so that it doesn't take as long to travel over the Externer LinkInternet.

SMIL is based on the Externer LinkeXtensible Markup Language (XML). Rather than defining the actual formats used to represent multimedia data, it defines the commands that specify whether the various multimedia components should be played together or in sequence.«