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Re: Captions for audio clips

From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:46:17 +0100
Message-ID: <3860BA09.E787CBF7@w3.org>
To: "J.R. van Ossenbruggen" <Jacco.van.Ossenbruggen@cwi.nl>
CC: geoff freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>, Marja-Riitta Koivunen <marja@w3.org>, w3c-wai-pf@w3.org, Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>, "webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net" <webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net>, "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, "'pjenkins@us.ibm.com'" <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>, www-smil@w3.org


"J.R. van Ossenbruggen" wrote:
> 
> About the complaints that SMIL 1.0 forces you to split up the text in
> many small files:
> 
> Note that in SMIL 1.0, you can have text in the SMIL file by using the
> <text src="data:..." /> syntax.  I know this is not ideal when you
> edit SMIL by hand: you probably will need some tool to escape the
> illegal URI characters (such as spaces etc).

In SMIL Boston, it should be possible to say 

<text href="xptr(pointer to elsewhere in the file)">

shouldn't it?

--
Chris
Received on Wednesday, 22 December 1999 06:49:26 GMT

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