RE: Roll-up captions in WebVTT

This is the chance to say By Bye to roll-up captions !
Let's grab it !

-----Original Message-----
From: David Singer [mailto:singer@apple.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 6:31 PM
To: Glenn Maynard
Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer; public-texttracks@w3.org
Subject: Re: Roll-up captions in WebVTT


On Dec 18, 2011, at 18:11 , Glenn Maynard wrote:

> I think you're mistaken about roll-up captions being "more natural" or 
> more common in the US.  I don't think this is a cultural issue at all, 
> and having to create separate tracks to represent each possible user 
> preference (never mind the combinatoric explosion this would lead to) 
> would be a very bad way forward.


That would, indeed, but I am not sure it's been suggested?

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 19 December 2011 17:30:25 UTC