November 1998
Intermediate to advanced
578 pages
28h 15m
English
Content preview from Web Design in a NutshellBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Examples of XML Technology
With XML’s ability to allow customized tagging systems, it is not surprising it is finding a wide variety of applications. Many XML languages are so specific that they will serve only a particular Intranet of a single business. Other XML technologies might serve a specfic community, as the Chemical Markup Language serves the scientific community but is of limited interest to most publishers.
The World Wide Web Consortium monitors other XML applications that have a greater impact on how media is presented over the Web, thus changing the Web’s capabilities. Two such applications are used for the synchronized multimedia presentations and a method for describing vector-based graphics in Web pages.
Multimedia Presentations with SMIL
SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) is a language for combining audio, video, text, and graphics in a precise, synchronized fashion. The SMIL 1.0 specification, released in June, 1998, is one of the first XML-based DTDs proposed by the W3C.
The SMIL file (using tags that follow the XML syntax) instructs the client to retrieve media elements that reside on the server as standalone files. The advantages of SMIL include the ability to:
Add hyperlinks in a time-based presentation
Integrate media elements from more than one server
Reuse media elements in multiple presentations
Allow users to choose the media tracks they prefer, for example, based on connection speed or language preferences
How SMIL works
The SMIL DTD ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.