< text ">hyper text , language , multimedia , text , World-Wide Web > (SMIL) A language based on Extensible Markup Language (XML), that enables people without programming or scripting backgrounds to author multimedia presentations in a simple text editor . SMIL is suitable for use on the World-Wide Web .
For example, a developer can write SMIL to display an image after an audio track ends.
SMIL uses two main tags: parallel and sequential. It refers to media objects by URLs, allowing them to be shared between presentations and stored on different servers for load balancing . The language can also associate different media objects with different bandwidths.
SMIL 1.0 became an official recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium W3C in June 1998.
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