Re: WebVTT spec

On 7 Mar 2013 06:53, "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
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> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
> >
> > I was actually wondering about the split and was considering the
> > opposite, namely to pull more back into HTML. The TextTrack API and
> > TextTrackCue etc should continue to stay in HTML, because you can create
> > text tracks and cues without WebVTT.
>
> Well, the current interface is very WebVTT specific. I could buy splitting
> the interface in two, though, with the WebVTT parts in WebVTT and the
> generic parts in HTML. Would that work?

Yes, that's what I was trying to say. For example the rules for rendering
WebVTT cues become the rules for rendering TextTrackCues and then WebVTT
can reference them. Is that what you meant?

Silvia.

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