- From: Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
- Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 18:35:16 -0400
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- CC: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>, "Edward O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On 05/05/2010 06:06 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote: > > 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. Suggestion: can somebody open a bug report? > Cheers, > Maciej - Sam Ruby
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