Thread: Second discussion topic for co-creation project: CREATIVE MEDIA EDITING & SHARING
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2009-09-09 , 13:09
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Originally Posted by sjgadsby View Post
Other than the transitions, that's basic SMIL. You also get text, audio, video, animation, etc.

Or you would, if SMIL support wasn't:
  1. limited to very few applications
  2. a different subset of the full specification + some proprietary extensions in each of those aforementioned applications
SMIL is great (especially when dealing with QuickTime and Flash FLVs), but wouldn't XML be better for something like this? I'm not saying that it's any more standardized than SMIL (because we all know how insanely varied and "personal" XML can be). But (imho), it's definitely more accessible.

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