December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
992 pages
22h 3m
English
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The Web currently supports a wide range of multimedia types, including images, sound, and video. Some specific multimedia implementations share native browser support, while others require plug-ins or helper applications. No matter how a given media object is supported, it is displayed or played independently of any other media objects. The W3C thought it would be useful to create a standard for integrating media objects and provide a means of synchronizing them. In the summer of 1998, the W3C released an XML application called SMIL (pronounced "smile"), which stands ...
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