- From: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:16:17 -0800
- To: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>
- Cc: 'Philip Jägenstedt' <philipj@opera.com>, 'Dick Bulterman' <Dick.Bulterman@cwi.nl>, 'Silvia Pfeiffer' <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, 'Geoff Freed' <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>, public-html-a11y@w3.org, markku.hakkinen@gmail.com, symm@w3.org
On Feb 22, 2010, at 12:18 AM, John Foliot wrote: >> >> However, there must be some order of priorities and I think reaching a >> consensus on a complex format and having inter-operable implementations >> shipped in several browsers is still years away. > > ...and so I would suggest that a high priority of ensuring that an XML > marked transcript format, as a required format that browsers MUST support, > is important - no IMHO it's critical. SmilText, full blown DFXP, or > something different again; what is important is that *one* such format is > supported out of the gate. > I agree that we need to agree on a "richer" caption format, but are we really in such a rush to nail down which format this minute? While we can't deliberate forever, we also don't want to choose capriciously. Implementing support for even a simple format like SRT will be a significant amount of work, and adding the extra features of another format like smilText or DXFP will be significantly more work, so we must choose carefully. eric
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