Re: CFC Via WBS re Bug 9673 Remove WEBSRT

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:42 AM, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> wrote:
> Janina Sajka
>>
>> I was requested to draft and circulate resolution language expressing
>> our concern and desire to have WEBSRT removed from HTML 5 specification
>> documents at this time. As Bug 9673, "Remove any reference to a specific
>> Time Stamp format for  video captioning from the specification at this
>> time,"  has now been filed expressing this same conclusion, I have
>> drafted our candidate resolution in support of this bug:
>> http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9673
>>
>> This email provides this draft resolution and serves as our Call for
>> Consensus on
>> this question.
>>
>> Please vote on this resolution via WBS at:
>> http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/44061/20100513_cfc-websrt/
>
>
>
> Further to the justifications put forth in this Draft Resolution, support
> for extracting a specific time stamp format from the Draft HTML5 Spec has
> also seen prior written support this past week from a number of browser
> vendors/implementers:
>
>        "That said, I definitely don't think putting this language into
> the
> HTML5 spec is the right thing to do. I think everyone (with possible
> exception of editor) would be served by having it be in a separate
> spec."
> - Jonas Sicking / Mozilla
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010May/0161.html
>
>        "Given this, I am strongly in favour of having any external
> associated
> text format specified independently from the HTML5 specification. It
> will also help authoring of such files, since they will not just be
> used in the Web context."
> - Silvia Pfeiffer / Mozilla (Contractor)
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010May/0114.html


Please note that I am not currently under contract with Mozilla and
that my statements should not be interpreted as officially speaking
for Mozilla. I am not even sure there is an official Mozilla opinion
on this topic.


Also, I think we may need to be careful not to convolute two different
things here: there have been two things added to the HTML5
specification - one is WebSRT and the other is the means in which
WebSRT is handled inside HTML5. The first, namely WebSRT itself, is a
new captioning format developed by Ian by extending SRT. The latter
specification indeed has been motivated by some of the work done
inside this group and can in fact be used completely independent of
WebSRT. I have no issues with leaving the latter in the specification,
but strongly object to having the first (the WebSRT format) inside the
HTML5 specification.

I am very confused about the language chosen in the Call for
Concensus, since it seems to convolute these two issues. I am
therefore unsure what I can vote.

Best Regards,
Silvia.

Received on Tuesday, 11 May 2010 00:13:25 UTC