1. SMIL Job Interview Questions Part Four!

How is the transition effects put into a SMIL presentation?
Name the general attributes for basic transitions.
How to create a hierarchical layout in SMIL?
How to apply CSS to a SMIL layout?

2. SMIL Job Interview Questions Part Three!

What steps would you follow to create a simple business presentation using SMIL?
What are the pros & cons of a SMIL presentation over say PowerPoint Presentation?
Name few tools that can be used to automate the process of creation of presentation.
Explain basic layout of a SMIL file.
What are the stacking & scaling attributes in SMIL?
Explain SMIL timing model.
How is linking done in SMIL. Write a small code snippet to support your answer.
What does systemCPU attribute of SMIL stand for?
List the environment related system test attributes.
What are the resource related system tests attributes?

3. SMIL Job Interview Questions Part Two!

If a person wants show his RSS or Atom feeds into his SMIL presentation, how can he achieve it?
What do you about VoiceXML & MusicXML? How can you it be included in a SMIL file?
What is the future of SMIL?
In order to view SMIL presentations, which tool can be used at client side?
Name few hardware that can natively run SMIL files.
Is it possible to view SMIL files over a webpage? If yes then how?
How XHTML-SMIL integration is done?
How can you stream a SMIL file?
Is it possible to edit SMIL files created by Preview Navigator?
How can you arrange a multichannel live streaming?

4. SMIL Job Interview Questions Part One!

What is the full form of SMIL?
What are the applications of SMIL?
Name the majors markups used in SMIL.
What was the reason behind development of SMIL?
How is it different from HTML & XML?
Give the MIME type of SMIL.
SMIL was developed by which organization?
What is the latest version of SMIL?
What is the extension of SMIL files?
How does SVG animation can be incorporated in a SMIL file?

5. What is <video> Element in SMIL?

- The <video> element defines a specific reference for a video object.

- Following example illustrates the element:

<html xmlns:t="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:time">
<head>
<?import namespace="t" implementation="#default#time2">
</head>
<body>

<t:video src="http://www.mysite.com/about/vap_windows_check.wmv"
repeatCount="indefinite" type="wmv" />

</body>
</html>

6. List the Media Attributes of SMIL?

- Every SMIL document, every object should be included with a reference URL from src attribute.

The attribute type defines the media type.

- erase - Specifies the behavior of the element after completion of timing.
- src - Specifies the source of a media object.
- type - Specifies the type of the media.

7. What is <audio> Element in SMIL?

- The <audio> element defines a specific reference for an audio object.

- Following example illustrates the element:
<html xmlns:t="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:time">
<head>
<?import namespace="t" implementation="#default#time2">
</head>
<body>

<t:audio src="dance.wav" repeatCount="indefinite" type="wav" />

</body>
</html>

8. Explain about Transition Effects and Animations?

- Transitions are different from SMIL animations.

- Transition effect occurs when a clip starts or stops.

- Animation effects while a clip plays.

- Same presentation can have both transition and animations.

- Both transition and animation can be applied to the same clip. The definitions of them are separate.

9. Describe about Transition Effects and Layouts?

- The transition effects may be applied to any visual clip irrespective of the layout.

- The area that is covered during a clip's play is treated as its background.

- The background can be a region color or clip in another region or a clip in the current region.

- The transition effect introduces the clip over, or removes the clip from its background.

- Hence, all the clips may not be the same size.

10. List the SMIL timing elements and attributes?

- SMIL timing Elements:

<excl> Specifies elements that are to be exclusively displayed
<par> Specifies elements that are to be displayed in parallel
<seq> Specifies elements that are to be displayed in a sequence

- SMIL timing Attributes:

begin - Specifies the delay before the display of the element
dur - Specifies the duration for the display
endsync - Synchronizes the stopping of parallel elements
repeatCount - Specifies the number of repetitions for the display

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