The SMIL 2.0 Language is the Web's solution for multimedia. This book provides a comprehensive guide to all of SMIL 2.0's elements and attributes for both desktop and mobile multimedia presentations. Driven by dozens of examples and illustrated code fragments, every aspect of SMIL is treated. Starting with essential background information on media encoding and transfer, this book considers the document structure, media integration, presentation layout and detailed timing constructs available in a wide range of SMIL compatible players and browsers. The book also considers advanced SMIL topics of linking, content control and SMIL animation, all from a practical, implementation-oriented perspective.
Dick Bulterman and Lloyd Rutledge are research staff members at CWI, the Dutch national center for mathematics and computer science in Amsterdam. Both were members of the SMIL 1.0 and SMIL 2.0 development committees of W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium. Together they have over 30 years of experience with multimedia and the Web.
SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) is an XML-based language, which facilitates the construction of multimedia applications for the internet and mobile devices. SMIL 2.0 - Interactive Multimedia for Web and Mobile Devices gently introduces you to the Web multimedia standard SMIL 2.0. Written by world-renowned SMIL experts who helped to develop the language and software for it, this book covers all aspects of the standard in a knowledgeable yet accessible manner: the overall concepts, the technical details and the many facets of SMIL's current and expected use. It is written to serve as an introduction, a full manual and a detailed technical reference. The authors will maintain an additional website, with download areas for code examples, among others.
Covers all aspects of SMIL 2.0
Written by key developers of the standard and the tools for it
SMIL 2.0 - Interactive multimedia for Web and Mobile Devices gently introduces you to the Web multimedia standard SMIL 2.0. Written by world-renowned SMIL experts who helped to develop the language and software for it, this book covers all aspects of the standard in a knowledgeable yet accessible manner: the overall concepts, the technical details and the many facets of SMIL's current and expected use. It is written to serve as an introduction, a full manual and a detailed technical reference.
Dick C.A. Bulterman
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