Adobe started using SMIL a bit a few years ago with their Adobe Media
Player.
Was good to see it being used in a big project.  It usually is behind the
scenes on phones (MMS) and some television programming systems.

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/mediaplayer/articles/amp_cdk_pt08.html

Moving forward, html5 and CSS will suffice.

Sull

On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Joly MacFie <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> Whatever happened to SMIL? :)
>
>
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 4:06 PM, elbowsofdeath 
> <[email protected]<steve%40dvmachine.com>>
> wrote:
>
> > Just trying to extract the interesting topic of multimedia from the video
> > format discussion.
> >
> > I dont really know whee to start, Ive always been interested in it,
> > although as mentioned previously I get a bit lost when I actually try to
> > flesh out some vague ideas into something more solid and useful.
> >
> > We've seen some, albeit fairly limited, attempts from the big video
> > services to add stuff to video, in terms of being able to insert links or
> > annotation to certain objects shown within a video. But even discounting
> the
> > tech limitations, Im left not quite sure how useful this stuff usually
> is,
> > is it worth the effort? Sometimes it really feels like its getting in the
> > way, maybe a lot of the time I really just want to consume video in
> linear
> > fashion and keep interactivity and communication for another part of the
> > site.
> >
> > Looking ahead I wonder how much video might get mixed in with online
> gaming
> > & 3D. I know that some years ago some people experimented with video in
> > Second Life but it seemed a bit like that stuff ended up as a bit of a
> fad?
> >
> > Are all the various ways that people can share different media on the web
> > providing a good foundation and all we need is a nicer way of presenting
> and
> > interacting with this stuff? I still daydream about better ways to mix
> > microblogging, photos, video & music & conversations together on the web,
> > but actual concrete ideas about how to do this seem to evade me.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >
> >
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