RE: iOS6 WebVTT TextTrack Support in Safari

Goldstein, Glenn wrote:
>
> does anyone know if iOS6 safari has text track support for
> webVTT on iPhone?
>
> my simple tests that work in Chrome Canary are not rendering
> webVTT on iOS6.
 
Hi Glenn,

As far as I can recall, this might be an open issue for mobile delivery
(both iOS as well as Android and possibly others). I believe the issue is in
managing 2 data-streams concurrently on the mobile devices (bandwidth and
processing), which hand off video to the native video players on the
hand-helds, and do not use the web browser like on the desktop experience.

I am unaware of a proposed solution at this time short of burned-in
captions, coupled with some server-side sniffing (or maybe media-queries?)
to deliver the correct media file to the hand-held device(s) - but happy to
be schooled otherwise.

JF
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John Foliot
Web Accessibility Specialist
Co-Facilitator, W3C HTML5 Accessibility Task Force (Media)
Co-Founder, Open Web Camp

Received on Wednesday, 26 September 2012 18:55:24 UTC