- From: Geoff Freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:44:51 -0500
- To: "public-html-a11y@w3.org" <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
- CC: "silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com" <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
With all this discussion over the past week regarding the coordination of <video> with caption/subtitle/description/karoke, etc., tracks, I am reminded of a question that I and a few others asked last fall when this group was formed: why is SMIL not being considered to take care of track synchronization, selection and activation? I know that there were objections to the size of SMIL, but there wasn't much discussion about implementing only specific modules rather than the whole huge spec. All this talk about <tracks> and <trackgroup> make me think we should be taking advantage of SMIL's <par> and <switch> elements, for example. So... what are the reasons SMIL modules (http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL/smil-modules.html) aren't being considered? Thanks. Geoff/WGBH
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