- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:41:44 +1100
- To: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Cc: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>, Geoff Freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>, Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com>, Frank Olivier <Frank.Olivier@microsoft.com>, HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:56 PM, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote: > Eric Carlson wrote: >> >> On Dec 15, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >> > >> > I think "widely used" was a fair assessment for SRT. All professional >> > entities that I've known that use other formats are usually also >> > capable of using SRT because it's so simple. Just saying "is >> > implemented in some sectors of the Web-development community" is >> > unfair because there are many professional entities that use it, too. >> > They make no big fuss about it, but they support it. SRT support is >> > more commonly found than TTML and I would therefore object to any >> > representation that tries to imply the opposite. >> >> I agree! SRT is one of the formats that YouTube recommends people use >> when uploading captions >> that are not already formatted [1]: >> >> If you do not have formatted caption data, such as a transcript that > does >> not have timing data, we recommend using SubRip (*.SRT) > or SubViewer (*.SUB) >> for generating formatted captions. > > Although I have complained to the HTML WG Chairs in the past about the use > of vague metrics when it comes to measurement, I think that here 'widely > used' does represent a fairly accurate assessment of SRT's usage. It's > usage in the fan-sub community for sub-titling is also well known, > although getting a handle on quantity metrics is difficult. Unless there > is strong push-back I believe we are best served by retaining that phrase > here. > > My $0.02 Canadian > > JF > While it's only indicative, a Google search for filetype:srt provides 264,000 results while filetype:ttml provides 713 results. Neither of these numbers mean much because the majority of these files will not live on the 'net. But they are indicative and quantitative. Cheers, Silvia.
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