Re: Support for advanced caption features (inc rollup)

Javascript SMPTE-TT implementations.


----- Original Message -----
From: Christian Vogler [mailto:christian.vogler@gallaudet.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 07:00 PM
To: Goldstein, Glenn
Cc: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>; Anna Cavender <annacc@google.com>; Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>; public-texttracks@w3.org <public-texttracks@w3.org>; Loretta Guarino Reid <lorettaguarino@google.com>
Subject: Re: Support for advanced caption features (inc rollup)

And render the captions on a web browser how?

Christian

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Goldstein, Glenn
<glenn.goldstein@viacom.com> wrote:
> we will focus our efforts on SMPTE-TT.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Hickson [mailto:ian@hixie.ch]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 6:39 PM
> To: Goldstein, Glenn
> Cc: Anna Cavender; Silvia Pfeiffer; public-texttracks@w3.org; Loretta Guarino Reid
> Subject: RE: Support for advanced caption features (inc rollup)
>
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Goldstein, Glenn wrote:
>>
>> actually, it does. without the rollup animation, the steady flow of
>> text is harder for your eye to follow.
>
> This is false. There are several studies, which have been referenced by people other than me on this list and in bugs, that demonstrate this.
>
>
>> we've done some experimentation with smart rollup to pop-on conversion,
>> but we also need the ability to render this important caption authoring
>> style on all platforms. rollup should not be thought of just as a funny
>> artifact of CEA-608 and old-fashioned TV technology. it is a ligitimate
>> caption authoring style.
>
> I disagree.
>
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