Re: TextTrack API changes

On Mon, 06 May 2013 15:42:16 +0200, Silvia Pfeiffer  
<silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com> wrote:

>> This is false. It was only possible to create WebVTT cues with the
>> TextTrackCue() constructor. (This is an argument against reintroducing  
>> it.)
>>
>
>
> You can try on Chrome. Just do cue = new TextTrackCue(0,5,"test"); It
> works. Doesn't need to be anything specific.

Chrome implements the old spec where TextTrackCue() creates a WebVTT cue.  
The "test" above is parsed using WebVTT parsing rules. The created cue has  
WebVTT-specific properties.

But if you mean by

[[
previously it was possible to construct a cue of any type and append it to  
a track with interpretation of cue content done by JavaScript
]]

that it was possible to construct a WebVTT cue with cue content of a  
different format and interpret the cue content with JavaScript, then that  
is still possible with new WebVTTCue().

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Tuesday, 7 May 2013 07:42:04 UTC