GRiNS: An Authoring Environment for Web Multimedia

The W3C has recently released a language for Web-based Multimedia presentations called SMIL: the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. GRiNS is an authoring and presentation environment that can be used to create SMIL-compliant documents and to play SMIL documents created with GRiNS or by hand. This paper discusses GRiNS as a tool for creating multimedia education materials on the Web.