- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:57:47 +1200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>, public-html-a11y@w3.org
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: >> > >> > 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 > > Indeed it seems unlikely that YouTube would want to use a built-in > feature for the presentational aspects of this, since doing so would limit > what they could do in the future to whatever we supported in the spec. > This is the kind of things for which I think it would make more sense to > provide hooks to allow Web page authors to do whatever they want with the > <video> timing model merely being used as infrastructure. I would agree with this statement if we restricted what is possible in a caption cue. However, I don't see a need for this. If we, instead, simply allow what is possible in a HTML div, I don't see this as an issue - it would not limit what can be done in a cue and it would be easy to implement by browsers since it would just be parsed as innerHTML, for which all parsing functionality is already available. Silvia.
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