Exercise 11-3

11.3. SMIL is an application of XML. What is the purpose of this technology? Where does it apply?

SMIL is stand for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language as a language for choreographing multimedia presentations where audio, video, text and graphics are combined in real-time.It applys for describing multimedia presentations and the followings describes SMIL’s utilization (W3schools, 2009):

a.) SMIL can be used to create Internet or Intranet presentations
b.) SMIL can be used to create slide-show presentations
c.) SMIL has been described as the Internet answer to PowerPoint
d.) SMIL presentations can display multiple file types (text, video, audio...)
e.) SMIL presentations can display multiple files at the same time
f.) SMIL presentations can display files from multiple web servers
g.) SMIL presentations can contain links to other SMIL presentations
h.) SMIL presentations can contain control buttons (stop, start, next, ...)
i.) SMIL has functions for defining sequences and duration of elements
j.) SMIL has functions for defining position and visibility of elements

References:
W3schools (2009). “SMIL Introduction” . Received 25th March, 2009 from URL - http://www.w3schools.com/smil/smil_intro.asp