Re: WebVTT Shipped in Firefox 31

Thanks for the update Jeroen.

In regards to the descriptions/chapters/metadata showing up if it's set to
showing, I'm thinking that they should be left out of the algorithm that
renders the cues on the overlay.

Rick


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Jeroen Wijering <mail@jeroenwijering.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Richard, it's looking great!
>
> For people's reference, I've updated the HTML5 video tests with
> results from the new Firefox. Some highlights:
>
> *) Closed captions are displayed, but there's no CC toggle in the
> controlbar yet.
> *) VTT positioning and tags (for bold/italic/underline, voices etc)
> are supported, but CSS styling of cues is not yet implemented.
> *) The full JavaScript API is also available. One can toggle track
> modes, get cue lists, listen to cue changes and create tracks/cues.
>
> http://www.jwplayer.com/html5/#html5_texttracks
>
> Note that, for creating cues, Firefox is using the new VTTCue()
> constructor. At this point, both Firefox and Chrome use that, but
> Safari and Internet Explorer still use new TextTrackCue() - there's a
> bit of a transition period javascripters should be aware of. Use
> something like this:
>
>   var cue = new(window.VTTCue || window.TextTrackCue)(5, 10, "hello
> world");
>
> Another item Richard and I were emailing about is that any kind of cue
> that's set "showing" will now popup in the video window. It seems to
> me this should only be the case with tracks of kind "captions" or
> "subtitles" and not with either "descriptions", ". The W3C spec is
> unclear about this though. Would it be good to add this, or is this
> kind of UI decisioning better left out?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jeroen
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:58 AM, Richard Eyre <rick.eyre@outlook.com>
> wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Thought it might be of interest to some of you that WebVTT has shipped in
> > Firefox 31 [1]. Please file any bugs that you may happen to find!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Rick
> >
> > [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/31.0/releasenotes/
>