Re: Timed tracks

On Wed, 5 May 2010, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> 
> while I appreciate your enthusiasm and time that you're spending on this 
> issue, I'm surprised to see that you're incorporating a new captioning 
> format in the HTML5 specification without discussing about it.

We've been discussing this for close to a year now.


> imho, the HTML5 specification shouldn't attempt to define a new 
> captioning for video:
>  http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/video.html#websrt

It's not a new format; it's the format used by SubRip, with minor 
extensions to handle features that were found to be needed during 
research (such as vertical text, ruby, and karaoke).

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