RE: [msft-html5] ISSUE-188: generic-track-format - Chairs Solicit Proposals

I would like to submit http://www.w3.org/wiki/ISSUE188/GenericTextTrack as a change proposal for this issue.

The HTML5 spec generally does not specify or define file formats for external resources.

WebVTT will be used in more than just a HTML5 context:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-texttracks/2011Nov/0022.html 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-texttracks/2011Dec/0027.html
...and so should be decoupled from the HTML5 specification, as it is more than just a HTML5 captioning format.

Thanks
Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Cotton 
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 9:25 AM
To: public-html@w3.org
Cc: Adrian Bateman
Subject: ISSUE-188: generic-track-format - Chairs Solicit Proposals

'Text tracks in HTML should be defined in a way agnostic of the specific caption format'

Per the HTML WG Decision Policy, at this time the chairs would like to solicit volunteers to write Change Proposals for ISSUE-188:

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/tracker/issues/188    
http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html#escalation

If no Change Proposals are written by January 14th, 2012, this issue will be closed without prejudice.

Issue status link:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/status/issue-status.html#ISSUE-188

/paulc
HTML WG co-chair

Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
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Tel: (425) 705-9596 Fax: (425) 936-7329

Received on Sunday, 11 December 2011 06:44:46 UTC