Re: [blink-dev] WebVTT vs TTML Features

On Dec 9, 2013, at 11:36 , Glenn Adams <glenn@chromium.org> wrote:

> But not as well as you could it would seem: on Chrome, WebVTT is simply translated to cues referring to a CSS styled HTML fragment. Why not simple define an HTMLCue, and dispense entirely with VTTCue and the WebVTT parser. The WebVTT could be translated to a sequence of HTML cues on the server or using client JS.
> 

This is probably stating the obvious, but you asked.

for at least two reasons:

* we want this to be only one of many possible implementation choice
and
* we want there to be a simple expression of the timed cues that is not dependent on an implementation choice

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Tuesday, 10 December 2013 19:35:00 UTC