SMIL 3.0: Flexible Multimedia for Web, Mobile Devices and Daisy Talking Books

The SMIL 3.0 language is the W3Cs standard language for web-based multimedia. This book provides a comprehensive guide to all of SMILs elements and attributes for all versions, from the complete SMIL Language profile to SMIL Tiny. Driven by dozens of examples and illustrated code fragments, every aspect of SMIL is treated in this book.

Starting with essential background on XML and the streaming media infrastructure, this book considers recent features such as smilText and smilState as well as the structuring, layout and timing aspects required to master SMIL. In addition, the book describes advanced SMIL functionality, including transitions, animation and embedded metadata, all from an application-oriented perspective.