Fwd: Re: Timed Text work

>Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 05:57:07 -0500 (EST)
>From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
>Reply-To: danield@w3.org
>To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
>cc: w3t-tech@w3.org
>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:56:58 +0100
>Subject: Re: Timed Text work
>
>
> > Thanks. My personal feeling is that XHTMLBasic + SMIL should do it (SMIL
> > has some positioning facilities, too), but we can leave that to the WG.
> >
> > Not that I want to get on anybody's nerve, but I still go on nagging... My
> > reaction is purely (as usual) the comm team person reaction: how would I
> > present this stuff to the public? Not only should we try to reuse existing
> > modules, but we should also try to avoid adding too much to the acronym
> > soup if we can avoid. If we spend a lot of time to the general public to
> > explain what SMIL and XHTML are, let use those combinations explicitly,
> > rather than having TT... Also, wouldn't it be clearer to have a slightly
> > more general charter for a WG and let that one finalize the XHTML+SMIL
> > module, too? The similarities are really too close...
>
>All good questions that should be discussed in the TT-TF forum.

Ivan Herman

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