On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Anna Cavender wrote: > > > > To clarify, I was proposing live captioning for video conferencing, not > > instant messaging and not necessarily roll-up, as a use case for the > > Region. There exist proposals to use WebVTT in DASH [1] and HLS [2], so > > this isn't too far fetched. A Region would enable appending of cues as > > a captioner types. > > That's certainly an interesting use case, but it's not one currently > supported by WebVTT really, at least, not one it was designed to support. > Not *yet* :). If this use case is derailing this thread, feel free to focus on the other important ones presented by others, though I think it will be important for WebVTT to support in the future. > It also doesn't require roll-up captions. > Note that Silvia's proposal of a "Region" would allow much more than just roll-up (in my example, an append). > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.' >
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