Transcript Graphics Shootout on the Web

Graphics Shootout on the Web
Jacco van Ossenbruggen
Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction
CWI Amsterdam
http://www.cwi.nl/~jrvosse/
SMIL
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
SMIL is about
timing…
not just graphics…
… combining Web
resources…
in an XML syntax
Beyond SMIL 1.0
• SMIL 1.0 provides:
– an XML document type for multimedia
presentations on the Web
• SMIL Boston provides:
– extensions to SMIL 1.0, but more importantly:
– a framework for timing in other XML
languages
• See SVG Animation, HTML+SMIL
• Future (?!): WML+SMIL, …
For more info on SMIL and
related specifications
• http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
Things I hear around me (1)
• The X Recommendation doesn’t even do this!
– We’re working on that, it will be in the next version
• Not good enough, my customers are waiting
for this, I need it now!
Things I hear around me (2)
• The X Recommendation doesn’t even do this!
– No, but X was never designed to do that
• So what Recommendation should I use?
– W3C is setting up a working group to address this
• Arghh!
Things I hear around me (3)
• The X Recommendation doesn’t even do this!
– No, but you can do that easily combining these
recommendations over here
• Why doesn’t it say so?
Conclusions
• SMIL is about time and synchronization
• We need more features and standards, not fewer
• We need to
– explain the scope of a Recommendations better
– suggest how you solve problems that are out of scope
– explain how Recommendations should be used in
combination