- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:46:51 +1100
- To: Ronny Mennerich <ronny.mennerich@googlemail.com>
- Cc: David Singer <singer@apple.com>, Jim King <jking@adobe.com>, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, "public-texttracks@w3.org" <public-texttracks@w3.org>
Hi Ronny, I was indeed looking at your document as a potential starter for the tutorial, since it has the relevant sections already layed out. :-) Your help would be greatly appreciated! You could even contribute your document to the group as an initial draft if you like. Cheers, Silvia. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Ronny Mennerich <ronny.mennerich@googlemail.com> wrote: > Think I could assist to work on a WebVTT tutorial, like I have done with > Silvia earlier for me WebVTT review. If you need me to help at this point > just let me know where I can help. > > Regards, > Ronny > > > Silvia Pfeiffer schrieb: >> >> 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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