Re: [text] WebVTT caption demos

FYI: a new WebVTT demo by WGBH.
Also in reply an issue about mime types that we may have forgotton about.
Cheers,
Silvia.


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Geoff Freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org> wrote:
>
> Hi, everyone:
>
> NCAM has put together a page of <track> and WebVTT demos at
> http://ncamftp.wgbh.org/test/track/ .  Currently there are two videos
> showing captions only, but more videos will be added as new features are
> implemented (and as I have the time).  They've been tested using Chrome 18+
> (Windows/Mac) and Safari 6 (Mac only) but not IE10.  If you're running IE10,
> please give these videos a try and let me know if they work.  <track>
> doesn't appear to be supported yet in other browsers.
>
> Thanks.
> Geoff Freed
> NCAM
>

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:22 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Aug 2012, Frank Olivier wrote:
>>
>> Nice demo.
>> The captions don't work in IE10, as the mime type is not correct on the server - It needs to be text/vtt.
>
> Note that the spec doesn't currently say whether to check the MIME type or
> not, because I couldn't get any agreement on this from the various browser
> vendors.

Received on Friday, 3 August 2012 00:35:30 UTC