XHTML+SMIL is a
W3C Note that describes an integration of
SMIL semantics with
XHTML and
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML or XML (including XML dialects such as SVG, MathML or XHTML). CSS is a cornerstone techno ...
. It is based generally upon the
HTML+TIME submission. The language is also known as HTML+SMIL.
[ Bulterman, D.C.A., & Rutledge, L. (2008)]
''SMIL 3.0''
. New York, NY: Springer.
The XHTML+SMIL language profile shares many modules with the standard SMIL language profiles, including the core modules of timing, media objects, linking, animation, transitions and content control. Where the other SMIL profiles use a language-specific layout model, XHTML+SMIL leverages the HTML flow layout and CSS positioning model familiar to many web authors. The semantics of integrating SMIL animation with the CSS model were also adopted in
SVG.
XHTML+SMIL was issued as a W3C Note rather than a
recommendation as there was only one implementation of the language profile (in
MSIE
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft which was used in the Windows line of operating systems (in Wi ...
).
See also
*
SMIL
*
HTML+TIME (Microsoft's implementation)
*
DAISY Digital Talking Book standard
References
External links
XHTML+SMIL specification
{{DEFAULTSORT:Xhtml
World Wide Web Consortium standards
Markup languages
HTML