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.
- 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 [XHTML10] and into SVG
[SVG].
- Extend the functionalities contained in the SMIL 2.1 [SMIL21] into
new or revised SMIL 3.0 modules.
- Define new SMIL 3.0 Profiles incorporating features useful within the
industry.
