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This paper presents Smil‐Editor – an authoring environment to write multimedia documents encoded in SMIL. The main feature of Smil‐Editor is to strongly integrate the presentation view, in which the document is executed, with the editing process. In this view objects can be selected to perform a wide set of editing actions ranging from attributes setting to direct spatial or temporal editions. This way of editing a multimedia document is close to the well‐known WYSIWYG paradigm used by usual word‐processors. Moreover, in order to help the author to specify the temporal organisation of documents, Smil‐Editor provides an execution report displayed through a timeline view. This view also contains information which helps the author to understand why such execution occurred. These multiple and synchronised views aim at covering the various needs for authoring multimedia documents.
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Jourdan, M., Roisin, C., Tardif, L. et al. Authoring SMIL documents by direct manipulations during presentation. World Wide Web 2, 179–190 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1019256924296
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