Re: TextTrackCue discussions

On 09/18/2013 08:11 AM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
> Hmm, this makes we wonder what the property for accessing the data is
> supposed to be. If it's a string, then it requires that the UA at
> least know what the encoding of the text is, which seems like it might
> not be true. RawCue and exposing the data as a typed array .data
> property seems OK to me. The other option is to base64-encode cues
> which are of an unknown encoding, I guess? 
It seems like exposing the binary directly is a better solution, since
we know it will be needed (for cues with unknown encoding, and for cues
that don't have a text representation, like CEA708). I'd rather not use
base64 encoding, since it adds what seems to be unnecessary complexity.