- From: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:17:55 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:47:22 +0100, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:02 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote: > >> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:31:47 +0100, Silvia Pfeiffer >> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> >>> wrote: >>>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Silvia Pfeiffer >>>> <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Hi Philip, >>>>>> >>>>>> Just a quick note that the "alternative" vs "additional" distinction >>>>>> is not always completely clear. Video with different camera angles >>>>>> (gimmiky or not) could be considered as an alternative, or could be >>>>>> rendered as picture-in-picture, or multiple thumbnail videos could >>>>>> show beside the main video (some sports sites already do this kind >>>>>> of >>>>>> thing). >> >> Sure, but all of those modes should be achieved by the author making it >> happen with CSS. At the risk of making a strawman argument, I honestly >> can't see browsers allowing the user to change the rendering of the page >> to achieve PiP or something like that when the author hasn't provided >> for >> it, messing with the layout like that seems both weird and unlikely to >> be >> useful. Of course we can have User JavaScript and User CSS to do that >> kind >> of thing, though. > > I was assuming that the "author" of the content - who labels the tracks > - might not be the same as the "author" of the webpage that is rendering > the content. So the first author should not assume that (say) multiple > views are alternatives, because some webpages might be able to view them > both as PIP. Since the tracks are labeled using the attribute of the <track> attribute, it will be the page author that has to do the work to support some specific video display, be that PiP, overlay or something else. -- Philip Jägenstedt Core Developer Opera Software
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