We need a standard
if internet is really going to support true sequential media delivery, we need a standard that allows us to specify “this event happens at this time,” and “that event at that time,” in relation to other events
what we really need is something like HTML with a sense of timing, which is where SMIL--Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language comes in
SMIL is markup language based on XML that lets you combine multimedia elements in just about any way imaginable for delivery over web, tv, wireless, palm pilot, tie pin...whatever
another format war: Microsoft and Macromedia proposed competing standard (SAMI); Real Networks embraces SMIL while Microsoft is pushing Windows Media Player as competitor to Real Networks; Microsoft has rejoined the SMIL standards process, cross-platform
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But if the internet is really going to support true sequential media delivery, we need a standard that allows us to specify "this event happens at this time, and that event at that time, in relation to other events"
That can’t be done with HTML-but of course it can with proprietary tools like Director and Shockwave and Flash and Beatnik...what we really need is something like HTML with a sense of timing...
Which is where SMIL comes in--that's the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, the markup language based on XMLl that lets you combine multimedia elements in just about any way imaginable for delivery over web, tv, wireless, palm pilot, tie pin..
And of course it's another format war: Microsoft and Macromedia left the SMIL tent and proposed competing standards; Real Networks embraces SMIL), Microsoftt is pushing Windows Media Player as a competitor....
There’s the sophisticated cross-platform Quicktime (owned by Apple...last I heard, now Microsoft has rejoined the SMIL standards process, and Quicktime supports SMI... so standards may converge.