Re: Agenda Item for next F2F - Reverting changes to TextTrackCue in master branch

On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:48 AM, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:18:50 +0200, Glenn Adams <glenn@skynav.com> wrote:
>>
>> While Cox supports the process of separating VTT specific APIs from the
>>> more generic TextTrackCue API, we oppose certain changes that introduce
>>> backward compatibilities, including:
>>>
>>> (1) the removal of the TextTrackCue constructor;
>>>
>>
>> The previous TextTrackCue constructor was actually WebVTT-specific (it
>> set all the WebVTT properties and "text" was parsed using WebVTT parsing
>> rules).
>>
>
> Thanks for that reminder. Indeed, I had posted a bug on this and suggested
> an alternative approach in [1].
>
> [1]  https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=21080
>

I was thinking of this solution initially, too. But let's continue to have
this discussion in the bugs and on the main mailing list. I have some
feedback that I will post to the bug. Thanks for pointing out this bug and
sorry for the delays to get to it.

Regards,
Silvia.

Received on Monday, 29 April 2013 08:04:30 UTC