Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.1) (original) (raw)

W3C

W3C Recommendation 13 December 2005

This version:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/

Latest SMIL 2 version:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL2/

Latest SMIL Recommendation:

http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL/

Previous version:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/PR-SMIL2-20050927/

Editors:

Dick Bulterman, CWI - Guido Grassel, Nokia - Jack Jansen, CWI - Antti Koivisto, Nokia - Nabil Layaïda, INRIA - Thierry Michel, W3C - Sjoerd Mullender, CWI - Daniel Zucker, Access Co., Ltd.

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This document specifies the second version of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile"). SMIL 2.1 has the following design goals:

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports indexat http://www.w3.org/TR/.

This document is a Recommendationof the W3C. It has been reviewed by W3C Members and other interested parties and has been endorsed by the Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable document and may be used as reference material or cited as a normative reference from another document. W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention to the specification and to promote its widespread deployment. This enhances the functionality and interoperability of the Web.

The SMIL 2.1 test suite along with an implementation report are publicly released and are intended solely to be used as proof of SMIL 2.1 implementability. It is only a snapshot of the actual implementation behaviors at one moment of time, as these implementations may not be immediately available to the public. The interoperability data is not intended to be used for assessing or grading the performance of any individual implementation.

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The authors of this document are the SYMM Working Group members. Different parts of the document have different editors.

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