Re: Timed tracks

On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Webfonts has been folded into CSS3 Fonts and is at WD.
> Text-shadow and text-outline are in CSS3 Text - at Editors draft. (NB Text
> outline was considered an important enough use case that we added it into
> TTML directly)
> Transitions are still at editors draft too, but TTML can do style
> animation, so you can get much of the effect now.
> Transforms - Editors draft.
>

More important than the official spec status is that these drafts have good
cross-browser consensus and multiple implementations in browsers today.

I would point out however that a lot of the resistance TTML has had in the
> past is due to the perception that it is already too complex, so adding all
> this CSS3 stuff, while fun and in some cases justifiable; will only serve to
> make it more so.
>

In the context of the Web, "adding all this CSS3 stuff" isn't adding any
complexity at all since it's stuff that is already specced and will have to
be implemented (or has already been implemented). Adding TTML, with new
syntax and potentially different semantics, is adding complexity.

Rob
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the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are
healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his
own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all." [Isaiah
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