Die
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) ist ein auf XML basierender,
von dem
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) entwickelter Vorschlag für
eine neue Markup-Sprache für zeitsynchronisierte, multimediale Inhalte.
Das W3C veröffentlichte im Juni 1998 die erste offizielle
Empfehlung für SMIL 1.0; es handelt sich damit um einen potentiellen Web-Standard.
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»Short
for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, a new
markup language being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that would enable
Web developers to divide
multimedia content into separate
files
and
streams (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
multimedia
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
Internet.
SMIL is based on the
eXtensible
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.«