- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 20:38:58 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- cc: public-texttracks@w3.org, Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > > > (1) We (YouTube) are required to support these features in the US > > > (per CVAA). > > > > I'm no lawyer, but I disagree with your interpretation of the relevant > > requirements. > > It was not my interpretation - I was given this by YouTube. I don't recommend blindly accepting this kind of direction without being very clear that it is in fact needed, given the impact on the Web. > > I don't think browsers should support your use case. > > Please note that you are not just objecting to roll-up with your > statements. I'm not objecting to roll-up, I'm objecting to browsers (and especially WebVTT) supporting features for faithful representation of other caption formats, especially caption formats that have constraints that do not apply on the Web. > There are other features that the "Region" spec also enables. If there are specific use cases that should be addressed, please file bugs describing them. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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