- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:29:49 -0800
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Cc: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>, public-texttracks@w3.org
On Dec 18, 2011, at 16:01 , Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 3:20 AM, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote: >> >> Duplicating captions would be evil, of course (think about what might >> happen if the track was being output via TTS), and much more evil if >> someone was trying to fake smooth scrolling (dozens of duplicates per >> caption). > > That's my point: it's currently the only way to achieve scrolling > captions and it's evil. Therefore we need a better way. > It's only evil if you can't tell it's a duplicate when you need to know (e.g. when using TTS), and what I am suggesting is tagging to say that, for those that need to know. I think the bandwidth 'waste' is minimal, and it keeps simple implementations very simple (each cue contains the actual text to display). David Singer Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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