Re: Timed tracks

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 21:10 +0000, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 5 May 2010, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> > 
> > while I appreciate your enthusiasm and time that you're spending on this 
> > issue, I'm surprised to see that you're incorporating a new captioning 
> > format in the HTML5 specification without discussing about it.
> 
> We've been discussing this for close to a year now.

Nowhere did we say that the HTML5 specification should include its own
captioning format in that discussion.

> > imho, the HTML5 specification shouldn't attempt to define a new 
> > captioning for video:
> >  http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/video.html#websrt
> 
> It's not a new format; it's the format used by SubRip, with minor 
> extensions to handle features that were found to be needed during 
> research (such as vertical text, ruby, and karaoke).

Then let's settle that you are introducing a new version of an existing
format.

Philippe

Received on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 21:18:48 UTC