Re: text-format discussion from today's call

(This is presumably slightly off-topic, for which I apologise. I've set 
follow-ups to the WHATWG list.)

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> >
> > However I've looked at what Ian is up to recently, and I think that 
> > TTML could map fairly well into his evolving architecture, so all we 
> > need to make sure is that he doesn't explicitly rule it out.
> 
> I also would prefer to keep the <track> platform open to any file 
> format.

The <track> element as specced in the WHATWG HTML spec is intended to be 
format-agnostic. If there's anything that implies otherwise, please send 
feedback to the WHATWG list. (There may already be such feedback, in which 
case I will correct the problem in a few weeks when I get to that mail; 
right now I'm going through mail from around April.)

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