The CWI SMIL Page

SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, pronounced "smile") is a language for describing interactive synchronized multimedia distributed on the Web. It is an easy-to-author XML-compliant format similar in syntax to HTML. SMIL 2.0 became an official W3C recommendation on in August of 2001. SMIL provides Web users with:

SMIL Pages

SMIL Examples

Publications about SMIL

The GRiNS SMIL Player and Authoring Environment

Oratrix, a CWI spin-off company, has developed a player and authoring environment for SMIL called GRiNS. See GRiNS for more information.

SMIL at CWI

CWI (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica) is the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands. The Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction Theme (INS2) within CWI researches synchronized multimedia and its adaptability to user needs. Members of this theme were active contributors to the development of SMIL.

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