SMIL stands for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, and is pronounced "smile". It is a way to combine images, audio, animation, and text into a presentation that will let you display them on other peoples computers the way you designed them.

SMIL 1.0 is an official W3C recommendation, and will be included in the next generation of browsers. But for the moment, you need to use plugins or applets to use them.

The Goal (or one of them, they are doing a LOT online!) of the W3C is to have all SMIL content playable on all players, with changes for media formats. But various Media types compress into faster downloading and displaying then the basics, so you must tune your SMILs for the media types that make sense to you. With luck, these pages can give you the basic info and tools you need to build your own SMILs.

And if you are not looking for SMIL info, perhaps the links to one of my other web sites might be more to interest. Please feel free to check them out!

Or you could always Email Me!