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SMIL^TM

The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. SMIL is typically used for "rich media"/multimedia presentations which integrate streaming audio and video with images, text or any other media type. SMIL is an easy-to-learn HTML-like language, and many SMIL presentations are written using a simple text-editor.

For a more detailed description of the goals of the SMIL language, see the W3C Activity Statement on Synchronized Multimedia; a regularly updated report to W3C members that is also available to the public.

The public is invited to send comments and information requests about SMIL to the public mailing list [email protected] (public archives).

The SYMM WG is closed since 01 April 2012.

You may find related topics in the following Working Groups:

• HTMLWG (for example HTML5 video element)
• CSS WG (for example CSS Transitions Module Level 3 )
• Media fragments WG (for example the syntax for constructing media fragment URIs )

Following the closure of the SYMM WG, the current Synchronized Multimedia Home page is not maintained anymore. If you encounter broken links, these are du change of URI by the publisher without convinient forward to the new URI.

What´s New ?

1. The SYMM WG is closed since 01 April 2012.

2. 01 December 2008: The SYMM Working Group has published the SMIL 3.0 Recommendation.

3. 01 December 2008: The SMIL 3.0 compliant AMBULANT 2.0 was released. AMBULANT supports all of the new functionality in SMIL 3. (Demos are included.)
4. 01 December 2008: The CWI AMBULANT group has published a set of browser-based authoring and rendering tools for smilText and SMIL 3.0 PanZoom functionality. Please see: the AMBULANT technology demonstrators page.
5. 28 November 2008: Springer-Verlag has published the book SMIL 3.0: Interactive Multimedia for the Web, Mobile Devices and Daisy Talking Books. The book was written by Dick Bulterman (co-chair of the W3C SYMM Working Group) and Lloyd Rutledge.
6. 10 January 2008: The SYMM Working Group has published the Timesheets 1.0, an XML timing language that makes SMIL 3.0 element and attribute timing control available to a wide range of other XML languages.

Past news ...

Specifications

- Latest SMIL 3 version: (The latest version of the SMIL 3.x specification,whatever its maturity). http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL3/
- Latest SMIL 2 version: (The latest version of the SMIL 2.x specification,whatever its maturity). http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL2/
- Latest SMIL Recommendation: (The most mature SMIL Recommendation (whatever the major revision number). http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL/

SMIL 3.0

• W3C Recommendation SMIL 3.0 (01 Dec 2008).
• SMIL Timesheets 1.0 (28/03/2012): a Working Group NOTE.

  An XML timing language that makes SMIL 3.0 element and attribute timing control available to a wide range of other XML languages. Here's a list of SMIL Timesheets implementations :

  • http://www.tml.tkk.fi/~pv/timesheets/
  • http://leunen.d.free.fr/fakesmile/
  • http://limsee3.gforge.inria.fr/public-site/timesheets/scheduler.html

• SMIL 3.0 Testsuite (New Funct. only) and SMIL 3.0 Implementation report

SMIL 2.1

• W3C Recommendation SMIL 2.1 (13 Dec 2005).
• SMIL 2.1 Testsuite and SMIL 2.1 Implementation report

SMIL 2.0

• W3C Recommendation: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL 2.0) [Second Edition]
  
• Translations of SMIL 2.0 (e.g. French, Korean)
• W3C Note "XHTML+SMIL Profile"
• SMIL 2.0 Testsuite
• Implementation Results from SMIL2.0 Test suite
• "The application/smil and application/smil+xml Media Types" Internet Draft

SMIL 1.0

• W3C Recommendation: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 1.0 Specification
• Translations of SMIL 1.0 (e.g. Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese)
• SMIL 1.0  Player Testcases and  SMIL Player Feature List

SMIL in MMS

• 3GPP TS 26.140 - Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS); Media formats and codes
• 3GPP TS 26.234 - Transparent end-to-end streaming service; Protocols and codecs
  (SMIL profile is defined in Section B and Appendix B define the MMS SMIL profile)
• 3GPP TS 26.246- Transparent end-to-end Packet-switched Streaming Service (PSS); 3GPP SMIL language profile - part of Release 6
• MMS SMIL profile from OMA

Media formats

The following media formats (registered and non-registered mime types) are supported in the following implementations (to be updated)

• AMBULANT player
• GRiNS for SMIL-2.0
• X-SMILES
• QuickTime
• Realplayer

Getting Help

Press Articles

• SMIL 3.0 Draft, Whats New ?
• SMIL 3.0 and IE8 with Firefox 3.0
• What is in Store for SMIL 3.0 with IE 8?
• Future of SMIL 3.0 in the two browsers.

Tutorials

• The book SMIL 3.0: Interactive Multimedia for the Web, Mobile Devices and Daisy Talking Books. The book was written by Dick Bulterman and Lloyd Rutledge
• SMIL Standards and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8: Overview on SMIL and its history with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
• Learn SMIL with a SMIL: a tutorial in SMIL written in SMIL by Jose Ramirez.
• SMIL 2.0: Interactive Multimedia for Web and Mobile Devices" by Dick Bulterman and Lloyd Rutledge. For more information, please see http://www.XmediaSMIL.net/.
• Learning to SMIL: This tutorial will teach you the fundamentals you'll need to understand before exploring SMIL in depth. The lessons contain working examples of SMIL in action, as well as questions to test your understanding.
• SMIL Developer Resources
• RealNetworks Production Guide contains SMIL Chapters (previous (G2) version)
• Documentation on Quicktime SMIL Implementation by Apple
• Boston University SMIL tutorial
• "SMIL 2.0 - Part 1: Overview, Concepts and Structure" [PDF] by Dick Bulterman
• "A Realist's SMIL Manifesto" Tutorial
• All HTML SMIL Tutorial (in French/en Francais)
• SMIL book published by Sams Publishing. Includes SMIL 2.0 tutorials in both RealONE and IE.
• Presentation slides "What's new in SMIL 2.0 ?"
• Openwave MMS Documentation
• Web Techniques SMIL tutorial - Excellent tutorial explaining some neat tricks
• SMIL Tutorial by CWI
• Helio SMIL tutorial
• Web Review SMIL tutorial
• Tutorial on using SMIL animation with SVG by KevLinDev
• Universal SMIL - SMIL content playable on all players, with  appropriate media formats.
• "Cours d'introduction à SMIL" by Didier Courtaud (in French/en francais)
  • SMIL version (including video and audio)
  • HTML version
• SMIL - Un Introduction- Lecture slides by Philipp Hoschka (in French/en francais)
• The SMIL 1.0 Textbook (in German/auf Deutsch)
• The SMIL 2.0 Textbook (in German/auf Deutsch)
• SMIL bulletin board by RealNetworks
• A tutorial in italian about SMIL (translated also in spanish) by Luigi Corrias.
• QuickTime Karaoke
• a SMIL 2.0 tutorial in Chinese
• a SMIL tutorial in Hindi

Public Mailing List

The public is invited to send comments and information requests about SMIL to the public mailing list [email protected] (public archives). The list is open to everyone. To subscribe, try quick subscribe. If that does not work, send a mail with "Subject: subscribe" to [email protected]. If you have problems subscribing/unsubscribing, see more info on W3C mailing list administration.

Players

SMIL 3.0

• The SMIL 3.0 compliant AMBULANT 2.0 supports all of the new functionality in SMIL 3. The AMBULANT SMIL 3.0 player is available for Linux, OS X, Windows desktop, Windows TabletPC and Windows PocketPC implementations.

SMIL 2.1

• AMBULANT player from CWI, with full support for SMIL 2.1. The Player supports the SMIL 2.1 Mobile, Extended Mobile and Language profiles. The AMBULANT SMIL 2.1 player is available for Linux, OS X, Windows desktop, Windows TabletPC and Windows PocketPC implementations.
• RealNetworks' SMIL implementation RealPlayer v11, project in the Helix open-source community . See Quick Start guide to download and build the code.

SMIL 2.0

• AMBULANT player from CWI, with full support for SMIL 2.0 [Second Edition]. The Player supports the SMIL 2.0 Language and Basic profiles. The AMBULANT SMIL 2.0 player is available for Linux, OS X, Windows desktop, Windows TabletPC and Windows PocketPC implementations.
• GRiNS for SMIL-2.0 by Oratrix provides a SMIL 2.0 player which supports SMIL 2.0 syntax and semantics.
• RealNetworks' SMIL implementation is now public under the datatypes project in the Helix open-source community. See Quick Start guide to download and build the code.
• SMIL Player by InterObject. The player supports SMIL 2.0 Basic Profile.The player runs on PC with Windows NT/2000/XP and handheld devices with Pocket PC, such as Compaq iPAQ. Refer to product specifications
• Internet Explorer 6.0 by Microsoft includes implementation of XHTML+SMIL Profile Working Draft
• Internet Explorer 5.5 by Microsoft supports many of the SMIL 2.0 draft modules including Timing and Synchronization, BasicAnimation, SplineAnimation, BasicMedia, MediaClipping, and BasicContentControl. See an introductory article about SMIL 2.0 support (called HTML+TIME 2.0) in IE 5.5.
• NetFront v3.0 is a micro browser for PDA/mobile phone/information appliances. It claims to support HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0/ SMIL Basic/SVG Tiny.
• Pocket SMIL, it is written in C++.
• RubiC is developed by Roxia Co.,Ltd. It includes an authoring tool and player, and fully supports SMIL 2.0 specification. "RubiC" is also available for mobile handset for mobile internet MMS(Multimedia Messaging Service)
• List of MMS Simulators
• Tao's announced Qi browser supports SMIL, HTML 4.01 CSS, and XML (including XML Parser, DTD and Schema validation).
• Microsoft's Windows Media Services ; Server-side Playlist : A server-side playlist script based on the SMIL 2.0 syntax.

SMIL 1.0

• Autometa RPXP is an open-source (LGPL v2.1) object-oriented Perl 5.005 script. It generates SMIL 1.0 and RealText streaming media presentations.
• Grins (SMIL1.0) by Oratrix
• HPAS by Compaq
• Lp player by Productivity Works
• QuickTime 4.1 by Apple
• Realplayer 8 by RealNetworks
• Soja, a Java based SMIL player by Helio
• S2M2 , a Java Applet-based SMIL Player by NIST
• Schmunzel , a Java player by SunTREC Salzburg.
• X-SMILES a Java based open browser by TML laboratory

Authoring Tools

• Authoring and rendering tools for smilText and SMIL 3.0 PanZoom functionality: the AMBULANT technology demonstrators page.
• Ezer by SMIL Media
• Fluition by Confluent Technologies
• Grins by Oratrix
• GoLive6 by Adobe
• Hi-Caption, a captioning tool by Hisoftware
• HomeSite by Allaire
• JM-Mobile Editor for mobiles using SMIL and J2ME technologies.
• Kino: a non-linear DV editor for GNU/Linux. It features integration with IEEE-1394 for capture.
• LimSee2 is an open source SMIL authoring tool, with support for SMIL 1.0 and SMIL 2.0.
• MAGpie , a captioning tool by WGBH
• MovieBoard, for e-learning (Japanese only)
• MMS Simulators list
• Perly SMIL , a SMIL 1.0 Perl module
• ppt2smil tool is a PowerPoint macro that convert a PowerPoint presentation to a streaming SMIL presentation with audio and/or video.
• RealSlideshow Basic by RealNetworks
• SMIL Composer SuperToolz by HotSausage
• Smibase, a server-installed software suite
• SMIL Editor V2.0, by DoCoMo.
• SMILGen by  RealNetworks, a SMIL (and XML) authoring tool designed to ease the process of XML.
• SMIL Scenario Creator by KDDI
• SMIRK presentation authoring tool for the production of accessible slide shows outputting to SMIL 2.0, SMIL 1.0, XHTML + SMIL, HTML 4.01.
• SMOX Pad and SMOX Editor, for advanced SMIL and HTML+Time development.
• SMG for a PDA, a BREW, a Phone and a PC by Smilmedia
• TAG Editor 2.0 - G2 release by Digital Renaissance ???
• Tagfree 2000 SMIL Editor
• Toolkit for MPEG-4 from IBM, creates MPEG-4 binary from content created in XMT-O (based on the SMIL 2.0 syntax and semantics).
• TransTool - open source transcription tool
• VeonStudio by Veon
• Validator: SMIL 1.0, SMIL 2.0, SMIL 2.0 Basic and XHTML+SMIL by CWI.
• 3TMAN allows to easily author the complex multimedia projects and then can export the multimedia projects to the Html+time and/or SMIL formats

Demos

• INRIA scientific talks
• SMIL 2.0 Feature-by-feature demos by RealNetworks
• Torino and New York demos by Telecom Italia Lab
• SMIL1.0, SMIL 2.0 demos available from Oratrix.
• Synchronized Multimedia Summer School at INRIA
• The Webnews demo, by CWI. (needs an HTML renderer)
• Demos available from RealNetworks
• SMIL 1.0 tutorial written in SMIL
• SMIL1.0 demo of the Canyonlands
• XHTML+SMIL demos, by Microsoft (works In > IE5.5 only)
• XHTML+SMIL demos, by Patrick Schmitz (works In > IE5.5 only)
• Demos of SMIL Animation used in combination with SVG at Burning Pixel and KevLinDev
• Karaoke demo; SMIL version, you can directly test a Html+time version for IE6. An enhanced Karaoke demo.

Background

• justsmil.com - collection of SMIL-related information
• W3C Note "Synchronized Multimedia Modules based upon SMIL 1.0"
• SMIL1.0 DTD
• SMIL conference
• W3C Activity Statement
• W3C SYMM Working Group (members only) - the technical forum for development of SMIL

Accessibility

• SMIL accessibility demo by WGBH
• Accessibility Features of SMIL (W3C Note)

Past News

• 06 October 2008: The SYMM Working Group has published the SMIL 3.0 Proposed Recommendation.
• January 2008: The SYMM Working Group has published the SMIL 3.0 Candidate Recommendation. Comments, Implementation experiences and test cases are welcome.
• July 2007: The SYMM WG releases SMIL 3.0 Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 14 September 2007.
• Dec 2005: The AMBULANT team at CWI announces the release of the AMBULANT 1.6 player, with full support for SMIL 2.1. The Player supports the new SMIL 2.1 Mobile and SMIL 2.1 Extended Mobile profiles and includes SMIL 2.1 support into the existing SMIL Language profile. This version of AMBULANT is useful when evaluating the SMIL 2.1 specification. It also contains a range of performance and bug fixes for the SMIL 2.0 language support.The AMBULANT 1.6 player is available for Linux, OS X, Windows desktop, Windows TabletPC and Windows PocketPC implementations.
• Dec 2006: The SYMM WG releases SMIL 3.0 as a First Public Working Draft of the W3C.
• Dec 2005: The SYMM Working Group releases the SMIL 2.1 Recommendation (13 12 2005).
• Sept 2005: The SYMM Working Group releases SMIL 2.1 Proposed Recommendation.
• May 2005: The AMBULANT team at CWI announces the release of the AMBULANT 1.4 player, with full support for SMIL 2.1 CR. The Player supports the new SMIL 2.1CR Mobile and SMIL 2.1CR Extended Mobile profiles and includes SMIL 2.1CR support into the existing SMIL Language profile. This version of AMBULANT is useful when evaluating the SMIL 2.1CR specification. It also contains a range of performance and bug fixes for the SMIL 2.0 language support.The AMBULANT 1.4 player is available for Linux, OS X, Windows desktop, Windows TabletPC and Windows PocketPC implementations. A Zaurus Linux PDA version will be available shortly.
• May 2005: The SYMM Working Group has released SMIL 2.1, as a Candidate Recommendation. Comments are welcome through 15 June.
• Feb 2005: The SYMM Working Group has released SMIL 2.1, a Last Call Working Draft. Comments are welcome through 25 February.
• Jan 2005: W3C publishes SMIL 2.0 Recommendation [Second Edition], a reedition of SMIL2.0 including resolved errata
  
• Nov 2004: W3C publishes SMIL 2.0 Proposed Edited Recommendation, a reedition of SMIL2.0 including resolved errata.
• July 2004: The Ambulant project announces the release of version 1.0 of the Ambulant player, a SMIL 2.0 player.
• July 2004: Manalee releases SMOX Pad and SMOX Editor, for advanced SMIL and HTML+Time development.
• June 2004: Real adds GPL to Helix Player, RedHat/Novell Join In. Read article.
• June 2004: Springer has published the book "SMIL 2.0: Interactive Multimedia for Web and Mobile Devices" by Dick Bulterman and Lloyd Rutledge. For more information, please see http://www.XmediaSMIL.net/.
• April 2004: The Ambulant Player project released the Ambulant/X distribution. This distribution supports nearly the entire SMIL 2.0 specification and is available in source form for Lunix, Linux/PDA, Mac OS X, Windows and WinCE distributions. In addition, custom installers are available for Mac OS X, Win32/Desktop and WinCE/PocketPC.The Ambulant team also released a set of six SMIL demonstrators that can be used to evaluate the Ambulant/X player (and other SMIL players). All of the projects distributions plus the latest project news are now available.
• February 2004: The Ambulant project at CWI releases the AMBULANT/S open-source player build, with extensive support for SMIL 2.0 timing, content control, layout and other SMIL Language profile features.
• February 2004: OMA "MMS Conformance Document 1.2": - defines "a very limited subset of SMIL elements ("MMS SMIL") which are needed toachieve the minimal presentation capabilities required by the first phase of the Multimedia Messaging Service MMS".
• January 2004: Real Networks releases RealPlayer 10,with vastly improved codecs and support for 3GPP SMIL namespace
• December 2003: 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) SMIL Language Profile (Release 6) .
• December 2003: KDDI to Launch CDMA 1X WIN, a new 3G service that enables high speed data communications up to 2.4 Mps. It supports SMIL Basic.
• November 2003: Autometa RPXP is an open-source project that generates SMIL 1.0 and RealText streaming media presentations.

  November 2003: AMBULANT Open Source SMIL Player released by CWI

• October 2003: NetFront is a SMIL player released by Access for KDDI mobile phones.
• July 2003: The SMIRK presentation authoring system is now available for testing. It is a tool for the production of accessible slide shows outputting to SMIL 2.0 , SMIL 1.0, XHTML+SMIL, HTML4.01.
• July 2003: Boston University SMIL tutorial
• July 2003: Learn SVG is a workbook-like format that lends itself to people who want both a solid foundation in the main aspects of SVG and SMIL.
• July 2003: Tao's announced Qi browser supports SMIL
• June 2003: Nokia 6600 phone will have SMIL support in its MMS client. The phone supports the 3GPP SMIL profile.
• June 2003: INRIA releases LimSee2 an open source SMIL authoring tool, with support for SMIL 1.0 and SMIL 2.0.
• June 2003: RealNetworks' SMIL implementation is now public under the datatypes project in the Helix open-source community.
• May 2003: Roxia Co. annouces RubiC, a SMIL 2.0 player and authoring tool.
• May 2003: IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 supports XMT-O content (based on the SMIL 2.0).
• May 2003: TransTool - open source transcription tool
• May 2003: "Let SMIL be your umbrella: Computerized tools for automating presentation and analysis of digital video in behavioral research" shows how to use SMIL for video editing
• April 2003: Smilmedia provides the GPS SMIL Multimedia Service based on Brew for the KDDI , the famous mobile company in Japan.
• March 2003:NetFront v3.0 annouces a micro browser for PDA/mobile phone/information appliances. It claims to support HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0/SMIL Basic/SVG Tiny.
• Feb 2003: Openwave MMS Documentation

  Feb 2003: List of MMS Simulators

• Feb 2003: RealNetworks Production Guidecontains SMIL Chapters
• Jan 2003: W3C Launches the Timed Text Working Group. Read the Charter.
• Jan 2003: SMIL Europe 2003 conference announced in Paris on Febuary 12, 13, 14, 2003.
• Oct 2002: SMIL Tutorial by CWI
• Sep 2002: Documentation on Quicktime SMIL Implementation by Apple
• Aug 2002: SMIL 2.0 Feature-by-feature demos by RealNetworks
• Jul 2002: SMIL Scenario Creator by KDDI
• Jul 2002: "A Realist's SMIL Manifesto" Tutorial
• Jul 2002: Tagfree 2000 SMIL Editor
• Jul 2002: 3GPP MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) and Streaming Service use SMIL - see 3GPP specifications (TS 26.140 defines MMS and TS 26.234, Section 8 and Appendix B define SMIL profile)
• Jun 2002: All HTML SMIL Tutorial (in French/en Francais)
• Mar 2002: SMIL Player from InterObject is now available. The player supports the SMIL 2.0 Basic Profile.
• Jan 2002: W3C releases a Note for XHTML+SMIL Profile.
• Jan 2002: X-Smiles 0.5 has been released, a java-based XML browser providing good XHTML 1.0 basic + CSS Mobile profile support. Also more features have been added to SMIL 2 and XForms. SMIL now has many layout enchancements, animation, transparent color support.
• Dec 2001: SMIL book published by Sams Publishing. Includes SMIL 2.0 tutorials in both RealONE and IE.
• Nov 2001: SMIL Editor V2.0, by DoCoMo releases a SMIL content Authoring tool.
• Oct 2001: "SMILtheque" by Aristote available (Navigable audio/video of talks synchronized with slides)
• Sep 2001: Oratrix announces its GRiNS Editor based on SMIL2 Editor family and streamlined to export to the new RealONE format.
• Sep 2001: RealNetworks releases SMILGen, a SMIL (and XML) authoring tool designed to ease the process of XML.
• Sep 2001: RealNetworks releases the RealOne Platform with full support for the SMIL 2.0 Language profile.
• Sep 2001: Torino demo by Telecom Italia Lab available
• Sep 2001:SMIL Animation becomes a W3C Recommendation.
• Sep 2001: X-Smiles, version 0.4 a new java-based XML browser, supports  SMIL 2.0 Basic.
• Aug 2001: SMIL 2.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation (Press Release, Testimonials, Implementation Report - see also "What's new in SMIL 2.0 ?").
• Aug 2001: XHTML+SMIL Profile Working Draft published.
• Aug 2001: Internet Explorer 6.0 by Microsoft includes implementation of XHTML+SMIL Profile Working Draft.
• Aug 2001:Talkshow on SMIL 2.0 (streaming audio) by streamingmedia.com
• Aug 2001: SMIL/XHTML+SMIL converter by INRIA
• Aug 2001: "Streaming: Past, Present and Future - An In releases SMILGen, a SMIL (and XML) authoring tool designed to ease the process of XML.
• Sep 2001: RealNetworks releases the RealOne Platform with full support for the SMIL 2.0 Language profile.
• Sep 2001: Torino demo by Telecom Italia Lab available
• Sep 2001:SMIL Animation becomes a W3C Recommendation.
• Sep 2001: X-Smiles, version 0.4 a new java-based XML browser, supports  SMIL 2.0 Basic.
• Aug 2001: SMIL 2.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation (Press Release, Testimonials, Implementation Report - see also "What's new in SMIL 2.0 ?").
• Aug 2001: XHTML+SMIL Profile Working Draft published.
• Aug 2001: Internet Explorer 6.0 by Microsoft includes implementation of XHTML+SMIL Profile Working Draft.
• Aug 2001:Talkshow on SMIL 2.0 (streaming audio) by streamingmedia.com
• Aug 2001: SMIL/XHTML+SMIL converter by INRIA
• Aug 2001: "Streaming: Past, Present and Future - An Investigation into the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language 2.0 (SMIL 2.0)" M. Sc. Thesis by Asa Viken
• July 2001: Internet Explorer 6.0 Public Preview by Microsoft supports many of the SMIL 2.0 modules including Timing and Synchronization, BasicAnimation, SplineAnimation, BasicMedia, MediaClipping, and BasicContentControl.
• July 2001: Presentation slides "What's new in SMIL 2.0 ?" available
• June 2001: INRIA Summer School "PDMS'2001 : Production et diffusion de documents multimédia synchronisés sur l'Internet" announced (Aug 27-31, Autrans, France).
• June, 2001: GRiNS, a new version of the SMIL-2 player with full support for the W3C SMIL 2.0 Proposed Recommendation syntax and semantics for the SMIL-2 Language and Basic profiles, an embeded SVG renderer, plus animation and timing semantics compatible with the XHTML+SMIL working draft
• June, 2001: W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of SMIL 2.0 to Proposed Recommendation status and the publication of SMIL 2.0 Testsuite.
• March 2001:X-Smiles, a Java-based Open Source XML Browser with SMIL 1.0 support announced
• March 2001: W3C releases a new Public Working Draft of SMIL 2.0 specification
• February 2001: SMIL 2.0, SMIL 2.0 Basic and XHTML + SMIL Validators by CWI.
• January 2001: Perly SMIL, a SMIL 1.0 Perl module
• December 2000: Schmunzel: a SMIL 1.0 Java player developed by SunTREC Salzburg.
• December 2000:Tutorial on using SMIL animation with SVG by KevLinDev
• December 2000:Keysplines graph tool for SMIL animation by Burning Pixel
• December 2000: Demos of SMIL animation used in combination with SVG at Burning Pixel and KevLinDev
• October 2000: Adobe will develop a SMIL extension for its Web authoring tool, Adobe GoLive 5.0.
• September 2000:Last Call Public Working Draft of SMIL20 now available.(Last Call ends October 20th 2000)
• SMIL-Boston (code name) is now renamed SMIL20.
• September 2000:Oratrix provides early release of its GRiNS for SMIL-2.0 player:
  In order to help evaluate the SMIL 2.0 Last Call spec, Oratrix is making versions of its SMIL-2.0 player available for general testing and evaluation.
• June 2000:Fluition by Confluent Technologies (Macintosh platform only).
• June 2000:Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 supports many of the SMIL 2.0 draft modules including Timing and Synchronization, BasicAnimation, SplineAnimation, BasicMedia, MediaClipping, and BasicContentControl. See an introductory article about SMIL 2.0 support (called HTML+TIME 2.0) in IE 5.5.
• June 2000:Apple QuickTime 4.1, now a SMIL 1.0 Player.
• June 2000: 4th public Working Draft of SMIL-Boston available
• May 2000 WWW9 Multimedia Workshop Monday, May 15, 2000 in Amsterdam
• Feb 2000: Third public Working Draft of SMIL-Boston available
• Jan 2000: Apple QuickTime 4.1, now a SMIL 1.0 Player.
• Jan 2000: Player Internet Explorer 5.5 Preview by Microsoft (supports selected modules of SMIL Boston draft)
• Jan 2000: Authoring tool Realslideshow 2.0 by RealNetworks
• Dec 1999: Internet Draft (4th Version): The application/smil Media Type
• Dec 1999: Chinese translation of SMIL 1.0
• Nov 1999: Captioning tool Magpie by WGBH
• Nov 1999: SMIL support for Apple QuickTime 4.1 announced
• Nov 1999: NIST SMIL S2M2 Player
• Nov 1999: Second public release of SMIL-Boston  Specification
• Sept 1999: Accessibility Features of SMIL (W3C Note)
• Aug 1999: Working draft of updated SMIL version available (Press Release)
• Feb 1999: W3C Note "Synchronized Multimedia Modules based upon SMIL 1.0"
• Feb 1999: Learn SMIL with SMIL - a SMIL training course written in SMIL
• Jan 1999: NIST makes Open Source SMIL player available (Aug 1999: not available)
• Aug 1998: Talk "Integrating SDP Functionality into SMIL" at IETF meeting
• Aug 1998: VEON authoring tool
• Jul 1998: CWI makes SMIL player available
• Jul 1998: RealNetworks makes beta SMIL implementation (G2) available
• Jun 1998: W3C Workshop on "Television and the Web"
• Apr 1998: Talk at RealNetworks Conference (Video, requires Realplayer G2 - SMIL source)
• Apr 1998: W3C Proposed Recommendation
• Mar 1998: HPAS, the first SMIL implementation is available
• Feb 1998: Second public version of SMIL Specification
• Nov 1997: First public release of SMIL  Specification (Press release)
  Press reactions (Selection):
  • Web Review: Streaming Media to Make you SMIL
  • Wired News: SMIL Hopes to Weave the Streams
  • CNET: Spec to bring TV-like content to the Net
• Mar 1997: Article "Towards Synchronized Multimedia on the Web" (published in World Wide Web Journal)
• Oct 1996: W3C Workshop: Real Time Multimedia and the Web
  • Presentation
• Jun 1996: Presentation at Advisory Committee Meeting, Boston
• May 1996: Developer's day session "Real Time" at 5th WWW conference, Paris
• May 1996: Tutorial "Sound and Video on the Web" 5th WWW conference, Paris
• May 1996: Article Integration of Real-Time Multimedia into the Web in special issue on WWW of ERCIM news
• Dec 1995: Birds of a Feather session Towards a Real-Time Multimedia Web, 4th WWW conference, Boston
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