Re: Why SMIL technology will prevail over competing methods?

Hello,


>Rolande and ALL,
>
>
>That's i think about your question:
>
>>I am trying to compose a list of arguments of why SMIL technology will
>>prevail over competing methods? I would appreciate the efforts of anyone
>>who cares to share their insights.

I don't think that "prevail over competing methods" was the point in the
development of SMIL. As Philipp Hoschka said in a recent interview
"SMIL uses URLs, you can integrate any existing format into a SMIL
presentation - proprietary or not - if your SMIL player can display the
format..."

That's not a surprise, being the hole of W3C to propose something
neutral to avoid proprietary solutions with all the bad things that come
with it (remember the case "VHS against Betacam").

>
>First, I think SMIL is a script language to allow browsers to handle and
>show multimedia content, not a isolated solution. With SMIL you can
>publish any kind of multimedia files elsewhere on the page, anywhere
>and with any other files. You can  put a Shockwave Flash calling a
>RealVideo clip and showing it beside than, after thy show a image
>sequence with a background sound.  The SMIL was bring to put all
>multimedia files to work togheter on the Web, like Director was created
>to put all multimiedia files to work togheter on CD-ROMs. That's my
>point of view.
Yes, I agree. Just a little note: SMIL seams to be a declarative language
and not a script language. As some people said SMIL is the HTML of
hypermedia world, so it must remain simple!

Best regards,
marcello

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Marcello P. Bax, Ph.D,
Post-graduate Program on Information Science
UFMG - Federal University of Minas Gerais
Web: www.eb.ufmg.br/bax

Received on Wednesday, 17 June 1998 10:22:18 UTC