XHTML+SMIL is a
W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 and led by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working t ...
Note that describes an integration of
SMIL semantics with
XHTML
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages. It mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated.
While HTML, prior ...
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 t ...
. It is based generally upon the
HTML+TIME
HTML+TIME (Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions) was the name of a W3C submission from Microsoft, Compaq/DEC and Macromedia that proposed an integration of SMIL semantics with HTML and CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style she ...
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
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for defining two-dimensional graphics, having support for interactivity and animation. The SVG specification is an open standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium sinc ...
.
XHTML+SMIL was issued as a W3C Note rather than a
recommendation as there was only one implementation of the language profile (in
MSIE).
See also
*
SMIL
*
HTML+TIME (Microsoft's implementation)
*
DAISY Digital Talking Book standard
References
External links
XHTML+SMIL specification
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World Wide Web Consortium standards
Markup languages
HTML