- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 15:06:17 -0700
- To: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
- Cc: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On May 5, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Philippe Le Hegaret wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 14:25 -0700, Edward O'Connor 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. >>> >>> Nowhere did we say that the HTML5 specification should include its >>> own >>> captioning format in that discussion. >> >> I think the unsuitability of many existing formats for use on the Web >> has been pretty well established during those discussions, so I'm not >> sure what's objectionable here. > > I'm not objecting to exploring new formats or new versions of existing > formats, but I don't believe that the HTML5 specification should the > definition of such thing. At the minimum, it should be in its > document. I think a separate document would be a good choice. Even if we define a new caption format for use with HTML5 <video>, people will want to use the new format outside HTML5, and people will want to use HTML5 with other caption formats. Thus, the interface between WebSRT and HTML5 has to be generic enough to work with other formats or other embedders anyway. Putting it in a separate document should help guide the right abstraction boundary. Cheers, Maciej
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