SMIL 2.0. 2. Examples and comparisons

For pt. 1 see ibid., vol. 8 , no. 4, p. 82-88 (2001). The article is the second part of a two-part series on SMIL 2.0, the newest version of the World Wide Web Consortium´s Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. Part 1 looked in detail at various aspects of the SMIL specification and the underlying SMIL timing model. This part looks at simple and complex examples of SMIL 2.0´s use and compares SMIL with other multimedia formats. We focus on SMIL´s textual structure in its various implementation profiles