- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:48:23 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Ralph Giles <giles@mozilla.com>
- cc: public-texttracks <public-texttracks@w3.org>
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Ralph Giles wrote: > On 12-09-14 2:27 PM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > > > Wide usage was not a great concern. If it was, we'd likely have gone > > for something used a lot more, e.g. the formats used with TV > > broadcasts or on DVDs, which are used way more than SRT. SRT was > > mostly a niche format for video enthusiasts online. > > I...wow. I'm pretty sure the number of distinct entities creating > subtitles in SRT dwarfs those creating in DVD and broadcast TV formats. I don't have precise numbers, but I'd be shocked if the number of consumers of DVD subtitles or broadcast captions was lower than the number of consumers of SRT files. But I guess it depends what you're measuring. Luckily it doesn't really matter, since we didn't pick SRT based on either of those metrics. > And you know DVD-Video uses bitmaps for subtitles, right? That wouldn't > have met a lot of our use cases. Indeed. Like I said, we picked SRT due to use cases, not due to usage metrics. Anyway this is all moot now. I was just saying that the premise of Jean-Baptiste's comment was false, and so it does not argue against Philip's point. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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