// about

This domain started in 2008 as the companion site to SMIL 3.0: Interactive Multimedia for the Web, Mobile Devices and Daisy Talking Books — a book published by Springer-Verlag, written by Dick Bulterman, then co-chair of the W3C Synchronized Multimedia working group. The site hosted examples, errata, and reference material for the SMIL 3.0 standard.

SMIL as a deployment target for the open web didn't pan out. The browser vendors went other directions and the standard receded. The questions it was trying to answer didn't go away — how do you coordinate media across time, how do you make rich content accessible, how does a declarative format scale — they just moved into other parts of the stack.

We kept the domain. The book project wound down, but a few of us stayed interested in the broader territory: open standards, media pipelines, browser internals, developer tooling. This is where we write things down. Posts go up when something is worth writing about. No schedule.

The name is what it is. It made sense in 2008.