- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:50:12 +1100
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: Jim King <jking@adobe.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-texttracks@w3.org" <public-texttracks@w3.org>
That needs to be some sort of file header metadata. Ian and I discussed a metadata section earlier, so I expect we'll eventually add this. Cheers, Silvia. On 15/11/2011, at 6:43 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > This looks like a good start. > > Not sure where we'd cover 'setting the 'kind' of a VTT track' for each audience. > > I am sure more will emerge once we have baseline documents. > > On Nov 13, 2011, at 23:30 , Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have been thinking about the structure of those documents that we >> will create around WebVTT. >> >> As stated, I think we need two documents: one targeted at video >> players that display captions (which includes browsers, but not >> exclusively), >> and a second one that is a tutorial targeted at caption authors or >> authoring applications (as Jim put it: "someone who is creating time >> text material can read to figure out what to output"). >> >> Here are roughly the table of contents that I would imagine for these documents: >> >> WebVTT Specification >> ================= >> 1. Syntax >> 2. Conformance requirements & extensibility >> 3. Parsing >> 4. Rendering (HTML/CSS-independent - more like the caption model) >> 5. MIME type registration >> Appendix: >> A. WebVTT and Web Browsers >> A.1. WebVTT cue text DOM construction rules >> A.2. Applying CSS properties to WebVTT Node Objects >> A.3. CSS extensions >> >> >> WebVTT Tutorial >> ============= >> 1. WebVTT file structure >> 2. WebVTT file header sections >> 3. WebVTT cue format >> 4. WebVTT cue settings >> 5. WebVTT cue content tags >> >> >> Since Ian will be editing the WebVTT Specification, this is also an >> attempt to figure out what exactly goes into this document - a >> question that Ian asked earlier. >> >> Did I miss anything? >> >> Cheers, >> Silvia. >> > > David Singer > Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc. >
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