Re: Roll-up captions in WebVTT

On Dec 19, 2011, at 9:29 , Gal Klein wrote:

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

I have to say, I don't see why or how.  What we'll end up with is hand-done jump-scroll, which is worse, I think.

> 
> -----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.
> 
> 
> 

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Monday, 19 December 2011 22:30:34 UTC