Re: Survey ready on Media Text Associations proposal

On Mar 10, 2010, at 8:34 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

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> On Mar 10, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
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>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:10:01 +0800, Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> wrote:
>>>> Is the intention that we specify a track selection algorithm with exact
>>>> rules for which track to enable based on settings, or should this be left to
>>>> UAs to override ad-hoc?
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>>> I don't think anything is prescribed to UAs in the HTML spec - if at
>>> all we can only make recommendations on what override rules a UA uses.
>>> No?
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>> There are very clear rules for resource selection for <source> and no provision for the UA to override this. I'm asking if the intention is to specify with the same level of detail which <track> to select and not allow UAs to override this, or if we should simply say that the UA can do whatever it wants. I don't like the latter because it will certainly lead to poor interoperability.
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> I would prefer if the rules for <track> are as precise as the ones for <source>, but I also think that this level of detail can wait until after the proposal is submitted to the HTML WG.
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  I agree with Maciej and Philip, we should have precise rules for <track> selection.

eric

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