[Bug 9773] New: There is not a clear difference between "subtitles" and "captions". These are mostly used to describe "closed captions" (binary transmissions in TV broadcasts) vs "subtitles" (text files), as far as I know.

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9773

           Summary: There is not a clear difference between "subtitles"
                    and "captions". These are mostly used to describe
                    "closed captions" (binary transmissions in TV
                    broadcasts) vs "subtitles" (text files), as far as I
                    know.
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
               URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom
                    -timedtrack-kind-captions
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: contributor@whatwg.org
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org


Section:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#dom-timedtrack-kind-captions

Comment:
There is not a clear difference between "subtitles" and "captions". These are
mostly used to describe "closed captions" (binary transmissions in TV
broadcasts) vs "subtitles" (text files), as far as I know.

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Received on Thursday, 20 May 2010 09:10:35 UTC