SMIL Scripting Guide for QuickTime: QuickTime SMIL Extensions. [Time code]; There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio; than are dreamt of in your philosophy.Hamlet, Act 1, Scene V There’s suddenly a lot of conventional wisdom that says the rise and eventual dominance of Android is manifest, and inevitable. Some of these claims make dubious analogies to Windows’ defeat of the Mac in the 90′s, ramming square pegs through round holes to make the analogy stick (to wit: who are the hardware manufacturers this time, the handset makers or the carriers).
It may indeed come to pass, but the reasoning behind these claims is pretty shallow thusfar. Case in point: an Appcelerator survey covered in The Apple Blog story Devs Say Android is Future-Proof. iOS? In the 90′s, the rise of Java seemed an obvious bet. If you think about it, the same thing happened a few years ago with AIR. My point in all this is that the conventional wisdom about platform success has a tendency to be selective in considering what factors will make or break a platform. Interactive Movies: QuickTime and SMIL. Interactive Movies: QuickTime and SMIL. Interactive Movies: QuickTime SMIL Extensions in Detail. Web essentials 04 - zeldman keynote captioned with quicktime SMI. Authoring - SMIL.