Adopting XML: Slide 27

Adopting XML: Tomorrow's Web

SMIL: Glitz and eye-candy

Essentially a framework for embedding multimedia objects, so that they can intercommunicate
Has some built-in multimedia capabilities
Optimised for low bandwidth
Designed to make it easy to add new handlers for new multimedia formats
First commercial implementation: Real Networks G2

Say 'Smile'!

Author: Simon Brooke