Introduction
Italics are used on these pages to present high-level information. Whenever you see something written in italics it is information that is meant to give you an overview. The rest is low-lewel information and detailed.
What can you learn from these pages?
What you will find here is an introduction to SMIL - Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. SMIL is an XML-based language that allows you to write multimedia presentasions that are interactive. An important feature of the language is that it is easy to describe layout on the screen and spatial layout i.e timing and synchronization. SMIL 2.0 is a W3C Recommendation and SMIL 2.1 is on its way to becoming a W3C recommendation.
SMIL 2.0 is the language version you will encounter here. The tutorials are written in 2.0. They are beginner level but assume some familiarity with HTML/XHTML and XML.
Where to start?
Here is a short list of recommended starting points based on level and preferences:
- Beginners — learning by doing: tutorials in How to SMIL
- Beginners — background first: To SMIL
- Beginners — IE: XHTML+SMIL
- The curious: start with the demos
- Experts: you might want to fast forward to the references
Designed information
The information on these pages is designed based on an methodology called Polyscopic Modelling. For more information see the references
