- Modularisation and Profiling for different applications
- Extends SMIL 1.0 functionalities
      
          - Animation facilities
- Event handling, (much) more detailed timing semantics
- New time container (exclusive)
- Extended positioning capabilities (eg, several top level windows, nested regions)
- Content Adaptation: preload media objects
- Visual transition effects 
- More accessibility, internationalization, and metadata
 
Some of the modules may (and are) reused by other XML applications.
		Some examples: