SMIL: Happy 5th anniversary !

On June 15 1998, i.e. 5 years (and one month :-)) ago, 
SMIL 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation.

It is impressive to see what was achieved since then:

- SMIL support in more than 15 "players"
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/#SMIL

- SMIL support in more than 20 authoring tools
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/#SMIL2

- SMIL is used as foundation for animation in SVG

- SMIL is used as media synchronisation and presentation 
format for 3GPP MMS
ftp://ftp.3gpp.org/specs/latest/Rel-5/26_series/26140-510.zip

- SMIL is part of MPEG-4 (as XMT)

- Impressive applications, e.g.
http://www.inria.fr/multimedia/Smiltheque-fra.html
http://www.reseau.it/smil/smilapp_en.html
(unfortunately, the server seems to be down - but they
are impressive, trust me :-))

-Philipp

Received on Tuesday, 15 July 2003 11:59:49 UTC