- From: Eric Carlson <eric.carlson@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 08:25:20 -0800
- To: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, "Michael(tm) Smith" <mike@w3.org>
- Cc: HTML Accessibility Task Force <public-html-a11y@w3.org>
On Mar 2, 2010, at 11:03 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > >> 2) Isn't it more likely that you'd want to get all the tracks of a given role? I think getTracksByRole() might be a more useful >> API addition. > > It may indeed turn out that this most basic API needs some extensions. > For now, we just want to be able to expose the most important > information about the tracks of a media resource to the browser. > getTracksByRole() can be simulated with this given API, so it is > strictly not necessary. It would however be a valuable simplification > for JavaScript. I'd suggest we get the basic implementation first > before we ask browser vendors to make more complicated convenience > functions. > It is fairly uncommon for a movie to have more than one track with a given role, so I agree that getTracksByRole would be overkill. eric
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