GRiNS: An Authoring Environment for Web Multimedia
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چکیده
The W3C has recently released a language for Web-based Multimedia presentations called SMIL: the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language. GRiNS is an authoring and presentation environment that can be used to create SMIL-compliant documents and to play SMIL documents created with GRiNS or by hand. This paper discusses GRiNS as a tool for creating multimedia education materials on the Web.
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