OT: The State Of SMIL

[Dan Shafer]

You ask a lot of questions, my friend! :-)

I haven't looked at SMIL for while, but some quick probing of my colleagues
in the Web design world suggests it is viewed as pretty much a dead end.

As far as I can tell, e.g., Firefox doesn't support the SMIL format, which
in itself is pretty much a kiss of death. Macromedia and Microsoft were not
part of the W3C committee that created the SMIL spec, which wsa largely the
invention of Real Networks. To this day, Real's players apparently support
SMIL just fine.

Now given that SMIL files play through the QT player object in Rev, all of
that may be moot. But in searching the Web, I didn't find very much info on
SMIL that post-dated about 2002. In 2005, the W3C reved the spec to 2.1 but
nothing has happened since.

Not sure all (or any) of those are valid data points, but my take is that
SMIL is a frown. :-)

Dan