- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:23:19 -0700
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, public-html@w3.org
On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:20 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:04 PM, John Foliot <jfoliot@stanford.edu> > wrote: >> Boris Zbarsky wrote: >>> On 4/23/10 12:25 AM, John Foliot wrote: >>>> As well, from experience this type of post-production is often >>>> outside the >>>> capacity of smaller and non-professional video producers, which >>>> raises the >>>> bar of entry. >>> >>> Honestly, I'm quite happy with a high bar of entry to what Sean was >>> saying he wants to do! I just wish people didn't want to do it to >>> start with. >> >> No, I want anyone to be able to easily create and caption videos with >> minimal effort - raising the bar simply reduces the output. I'm happy >> (excited!) that people want to do it right away. > > You're misunderstanding exactly what Boris is referring to when he > talks about what Sean is wanting to do. > > Sean wants to set up a barrier between captions and the page, so that > the video/caption author's intent can't be "subverted" by the page > author. Two different authors in question here. > > Boris is happy for it to be hard for the video author to set up such a > barrier, as it's unnecessary and reduces the page author's ability to > innovate for little reason. I think we can safely assume that he > wants a low barrier of entry for captioning itself. ^_^ We probably do need the barrier in the cross-origin case, at least by default. (I could imagine letting servers expose their captions cross- origin through something like CORS). Regards, Maciej
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