Re: Evidence of 'Wide Review' needed for VTT

On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 10:34:33 +0100, Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 21:29:14 +0100, David Singer <singer@apple.com>  
> wrote:
>
>>
>>> On Jan 14, 2015, at 11:57 , John Luther <jluther@jwplayer.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi, Dave, I was just writing to you. :-)
>>>
>>> Yes, we support WebVTT in JW Player and believe very strongly in the  
>>> technology. +Jeroen has been more involved in that activity than I  
>>> have.
>>>
>>> video.js supports is as well, I've added Steve to the thread.
>>>
>>> Do you think this lack of feedback is a serious risk to the spec  
>>> advancing? This is surprising to me as every major desktop browser now  
>>> has basic support (http://caniuse.com/#feat=webvtt), surely that  
>>> counts as significant review & adoption?
>>
>> It counts as adoption, for sure, but we also need comments on the spec.  
>> itself.
>
> Comments that have been addressed:
>
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&component=WebVTT&list_id=50662&product=TextTracks%20CG&query_format=advanced
>
> Comments that are still open:
>
> https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=WebVTT&list_id=50663&product=TextTracks%20CG&query_format=advanced

Bugs filed in HTML WG or WHATWG mentioning "webvtt":

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&list_id=50667&product=HTML%20WG&product=WHATWG&query_format=advanced&short_desc=webvtt&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr


> There have also been comments sent to various mailing lists over the  
> years, e.g. feedback from me in 2011 including the word "webvtt":
>
> https://www.w3.org/Search/Mail/Public/advanced_search?keywords=webvtt&hdr-1-name=subject&hdr-1-query=&hdr-2-name=from&hdr-2-query=simonp%40opera.com&hdr-3-name=message-id&hdr-3-query=&period_month=&period_year=2011&index-grp=Public__FULL&index-type=t&type-index=&resultsperpage=20&sortby=date
>


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Simon Pieters
Opera Software

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