TY - JOUR
T1 - Requirements for multimedia markup and style sheets on the World Wide Web
AU - Van Ossenbruggen, Jacco
AU - Hardman, Lynda
AU - Eliens, Anton
AU - Rutledge, L.
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - The unequivocal acceptance of Cascading Style sheets by all major browser vendors clearly indicates the need for separating content and style issues in HTML documents. However, in search of ever-richer content, providers rely on platform-specific plug-ins and browser-specific extensions such as dynamic HTML and scripting to achieve the desired (multimedia) functionality. We consider such an ad-hoc approach to delivering multimedia content as inadequate, and henceforth propose a multimedia document markup language (SMIL, which has recently been submitted to W3C) and discuss the requirements for an associated style sheet language supporting temporal and spatial constraints, hyperlinking among continuous media objects and adaptivity with respect to Quality of Service. In this paper we propose extensions to current style sheet languages to meet the requirements imposed by the capability to specify the presentation of multimedia content in a declarative manner.
AB - The unequivocal acceptance of Cascading Style sheets by all major browser vendors clearly indicates the need for separating content and style issues in HTML documents. However, in search of ever-richer content, providers rely on platform-specific plug-ins and browser-specific extensions such as dynamic HTML and scripting to achieve the desired (multimedia) functionality. We consider such an ad-hoc approach to delivering multimedia content as inadequate, and henceforth propose a multimedia document markup language (SMIL, which has recently been submitted to W3C) and discuss the requirements for an associated style sheet language supporting temporal and spatial constraints, hyperlinking among continuous media objects and adaptivity with respect to Quality of Service. In this paper we propose extensions to current style sheet languages to meet the requirements imposed by the capability to specify the presentation of multimedia content in a declarative manner.
KW - SMIL
KW - Style sheets
KW - Synchronized hypermedia
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U2 - 10.1016/s0169-7552(98)00055-5
DO - 10.1016/s0169-7552(98)00055-5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002951233
SN - 1389-1286
VL - 30
SP - 694
EP - 696
JO - Computer Networks
JF - Computer Networks
IS - 1-7
ER -