Re: [blink-dev] WebVTT vs TTML Features

I'm confident that the features are in the requirements. The question is
about actual use.


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Glenn Adams <glenn@chromium.org> wrote:

>
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:37 AM, Loretta Guarino Reid <
> lorettaguarino@google.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Nigel Megitt <nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk>wrote:
>>
>>> >How many of these 114 features are actually in use in the wild? WebVTT
>>> >has a strong drive to only support features that are motivated by a
>>> >use case. If any of these features are necessary, WebVTT can be
>>> >extended to support them. Some of them (like the 'padding' above)
>>> >would be fixed simply by adding the feature to the list of supported
>>> >CSS properties, which takes less than 5min to fix. It would be best
>>> >for us to find this out before we freeze the spec. Any input on use
>>> >cases would be welcome.
>>>
>>> Considering the amount of scrutiny and effort that's been put into
>>> developing TTML over many years it's safest to assume that all of the
>>> features have a use case/requirement within the overall scope of
>>> requirements rather than starting from the opposite perspective.
>>> Different
>>> subsets of these features may be needed for different parts of the entire
>>> author->audience workflow.
>>
>>
>>
>> I would hope that the amount of scrutiny and effort that has gone in
>> would make it easy to respond to this request, since you would know where
>> the features are needed, hence where to look for the examples.
>>
>
> I would suggest folks that wish to explore this further start by reading
> the Timed Text Authoring Use Cases and Requirements document at [1], which
> served to drive the specification of TTML1.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/NOTE-ttaf1-req-20060427/
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>

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