Re: timing model of the media resource in HTML5

On Nov 27, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:37:42 +0100, Frank Olivier <franko@microsoft.com 
> > wrote:
>
>> After discussing it on our side - we agree that not having multiple
>> element synchronization in this version of the spec is a good idea.
>>
>> As for captions: if captions are stylable via page css, what happens
>> if the caption format itself specifies styling? Also, imo the user
>> should be able to override page-specified styling, as they might
>> prefer their own styling.
>>
>
> In my opinion, the styling of the captions format should be mapped  
> to the equivalent CSS and act as if it were applied on each caption,  
> thus overriding conflicting style on the <overlay> element. If this  
> doesn't work for some more complex caption formats I suggest that  
> CSS simply be ignored. Certainly user CSS could be applied, just as  
> it can for any content on any page.
>
   I agree, mapping caption specific formatting to (inline?) CSS is  
the right way to go as regular cascade rules will allow the user to  
override if they wish.

eric

Received on Saturday, 28 November 2009 00:09:10 UTC