Re: Media--Technical Implications of Our User Requirements

On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 16:41 +0200, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
>>>          + 2.6 Captioning
>>> 
>>> Text content with the ability to contain hyperlinks, and semantic and  
>>> style
>>> instructions.
>>> 
>>> QUESTION: Are subtitles separate documents? Or are they combined with  
>>> captions
>>> in a single document, in which case multiple documents may be present to
>>> support subtitles and captions in various languages, e.g. EN, FR, DE,  
>>> JP, etc.
>> 
>> Given that hyperlinks don't exist in any mainstream captioning software  
>> (that I know of), it can hardly be a requirement unless virtually all  
>> existing software is insufficient.
> 
> But youtube, for example, does have annotations with hyperlinks in them.
> They're not captions, but they're still timed text content that contain
> hyperlinks.

Do we need YouTube-style annotation to be a built-in feature of the <video> element? Or would it be sufficient to make the <video> element capable enough that YouTube or other sites could build similar features themselves out of the primitives provided

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Monday, 19 July 2010 18:14:34 UTC