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Chapter 2. What is SMIL? - screen 1 of 7

What does SMIL mean?

SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. Prononce it "smile" !

It was developed by the World Wide Web Consortium and released on June 15th 1998. Click here to see the press release.

Here is a brief history:

DateEvent
Aug 3, 1999The w3c announces the first SMIL Boston draft
May 25, 1999GRiNS 0.5
May 2, 1999HELIO releases SOJA 1.0 Cherbourg
May 5-7, 1999RNC'99: MP3 and Flash4 support in RealPlayer G2 announced
Feb 2, 1999HELIO releases SOJA 1.0 Barbizon
Oct 5, 1998HELIO releases SOJA 1.0 Antipolis
Aug, 1998VEON releases its SMIL authoring tool
Jul, 1998CWI and REAL both make available their SMIL implementations
Jun 15, 1998The w3c publishes SMIL 1.0
Mar, 1998The first implentation of SMIL: HPAS
Feb, 1998Second public version of SMIL draft available
Nov, 1997First public release of SMIL Specification

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