Talk:Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language

Played on?

Judging from the lack of the following information, I'm guessing this is a dumb question, however, I am trying to find out what type of player is needed to play a .smil file. Shouldn't that be included here? 169.233.76.104 06:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

I am also trying to figure out how to play these files. Opening the files in any of the players mentioned in that list, or in a (up to date) webbrowser seems to do nothing. It would be nice if someone were to include an explanation of how these files are played. Uniqueuponhim 00:20, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Ambulant http://www.cwi.nl/projects/Ambulant/distPlayer.html is still listed on the W3C page. The page itself doesn't seem to mention at all that SMIL has been abandoned by MS. As far as I know there are no web browsers (unless maybe Konqueror) who truly support this. One of those things like Xforms we'll just keep waiting forever for. 217.166.94.1 (talk) 13:17, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Repetition

"The open-source Mozilla project is slowly incorporating SMIL and other XML-related technologies such as SVG and MathML into their browsers, but progress is slow" Should this be fixed?Luiscubal (talk) 16:18, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

request for example

could the article please be expanded with a small example of some SMIL code? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.112.182.70 (talk) 14:59, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Browser Support

SVG_animation tells that most modern browsers support at least some SMIL. If this is true then it should be added to the article.--78.54.163.234 (talk) 01:24, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

yes that is true. I think this article is somewhat out of date! although the amount of SMIL support is I think fairly minmal.Justinc (talk) 16:41, 1 January 2012 (UTC)

Erronous link?

Under See also, 'Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica' is mentioned, this surely is not connected to this topic and can safely be removed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.255.2.144 (talk) 05:42, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

If you click on the link, there is a claim that the institution worked on SMIL software. If they helped write or develop the standard, then the link may be relevant. If they only wrote an implementation of the standard, then the see also would be dubious. Glrx (talk) 23:25, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

Use the Source, Luke!

Judging by the W3 SMIL pages, it seems like they lost interest in this project in 2008. Should a Wikipedia entry explain existing documentation?

http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL/ http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL3/

May I suggest this entry be replaced entirely, or be made into an automatic link to a new page on Timed Text Markup Language? According to TTML, that is the current status of SMIL, which apparently turned into TTML in 2010.

TTML Standard --Hpfeil (talk) 17:26, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

• Oppose. SMIL exists. Superceding would be an entry in the history section that points to the successor. Glrx (talk) 23:35, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Unfortunate thumbnailing of Toy_train_SMIL.svg

This illustration is clearly meant to showcase SMIL animation, but this is lost since the article displays it as a static PNG render. I could not figure out what syntax to use to display the SVG file directly — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.230.128.41 (talk) 18:46, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Examples of SMIL in use

Would be great if the External Links section included links to some examples of SMIL in use. 128.230.232.119 (talk) 15:00, 14 December 2023 (UTC)