- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:00:22 +1100
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>, public-texttracks@w3.org
Hi David, We are indeed talking about two different documents here: Ian is talking about the specification document that the browsers and other WebVTT parsing application will follow in implementing WebVTT support. What you are referring to is a authoring guide, which has a very different target audience and does indeed need a different type of document. I'd be happy to start this document, but I think we first need to WebVTT extract from the WHATWG spec here, so Ian's questions are very important to get sorted first. Cheers, Silvia. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:37 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > This isn't quite answering your question, and it's not the document you agreed to write, but I suspect that it might be good to knock up a draft of the 'VTT author's guide' or the like, that 'documents' (non-normatively) what a VTT document looks like, and can contain etc. The current extract is, um, a little hard to read in that respect. > > That would make it easier to answer 'can I express what I want to express in this, does it have the effect I intend?'. > > I *think* Silvia might have wanted to write such; am I right? > > On Oct 10, 2011, at 17:25 , Ian Hickson wrote: > >> On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: >>> >>> 4. The WebVTT specification >>> >>> I'm sure you're all waiting to see the WebVTT specification in a place >>> where we can all start contributing. Right now, there are some licensing >>> issues to be sorted through, but I hope this can be resolved very soon. >> >> In the meantime, people should feel free to continue sending feedback as >> they have been. >> >> One thing that would be helpful for me as editor is determining exactly >> what aspects of the HTML standard people consider to be "WebVTT" so that >> we can extract just those. Is it just the syntax? Does it include the >> caption data model? Are the DOM APIs part of WebVTT? Is the rendering >> model part of WebVTT? How about the CSS extensions? Unfortunately the >> "webvtt.html" file people may have been looking at in the past is not a >> particularly good starting point as it is very coarse -- it's missing huge >> chunks of defining material (e.g. there's no conformance section). >> >> -- >> Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL >> http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. >> Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >> > > David Singer > Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc. > >
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