Re: Metadata in the VTT file header (bug 15851), use cases (and a need to close this) from Jean-Baptiste Kempf on 2012-09-13 (public-texttracks@w3.org from September 2012)

From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf <jb@videolan.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:48:26 +0200
To: Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com>
Cc: public-texttracks <public-texttracks@w3.org>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>
Message-ID: <20120913084826.GA14771@videolan.org>

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 09:00:08AM +0200, Philip Jägenstedt wrote :
> I don't really see why we should try
> to accommodate for non-Web users, in particular until they
> themselves come to ask for it.

And yet you took SRT, because it was very widely used by non-Web users,
in order to have an important traction and facility to convert them into
WebVTT.

Best regards,

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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Received on Friday, 14 September 2012 16:33:04 UTC