Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (or SMIL) 3.0 has now embellish a planned recommendation at the W3C. SMIL hasn’t been widely used, but whatever of it is widely based thanks to ACID tests that had the application vendors place it in.

3.0 has the mass goals:

  • Define an XML-based module that allows authors to indite interactive
    transmission presentations. Using SMIL, an communicator haw exposit the temporal
    activity of a transmission presentation, assort hyperlinks with media
    objects and exposit the layout of the show on a screen.
  • Allow reusing of SMIL structure and semantics in another XML-based
    languages, in portion those who requirement to equal timing and
    synchronization. For example, SMIL components are utilised for integrating
    timing into XHTML [XHTML10] and into SVG
    [SVG].
  • Extend the functionalities contained in the SMIL 2.1 [SMIL21] into
    newborn or revised SMIL 3.0 modules.
  • Define newborn SMIL 3.0 Profiles incorporating features multipurpose within the
    industry.