SMIL 2.0 Part 2: Examples and Comparisons

For pt. 1 see ibid., vol. 8 , no. 4, p. 82-88 (2001). The article is the second part of a two-part series on SMIL 2.0, the newest version of the World Wide Web Consortium's Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. Part 1 looked in detail at various aspects of the SMIL specification and the underlying SMIL timing model. This part looks at simple and complex examples of SMIL 2.0's use and compares SMIL with other multimedia formats. We focus on SMIL's textual structure in its various implementation profiles.